The Howell and Lansing Railroad is a defunct railroad which proposed to construct a railway line between

Howell Howell may refer to: Places In the United States * Howell, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Howell, Evansville, a neighborhood in Indiana * Howell, Michigan, a city in Livingston County * Howell County, Missouri * Howell, Missouri, a ...

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Lansing Lansing () is the capital city of the U.S. state of Michigan. The most populous city in Ingham County, parts of the city extend into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. It is the sixth-most populous city in Michigan with a popul ...

central Michigan Central Michigan, also called Mid Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula of the United States, U.S. state of Michigan. As its name implies, it is the middle area of the Lower Peninsula. Lower Michigan is said t ...

. The company incorporated on June 23, 1868 and began grading along the length of the line. The H&L had some difficulty obtaining financing; by the time it merged with the Detroit and Howell on March 29, 1870, no track had been laid. The two companies merged formed the Detroit, Howell and Lansing, and the H&L ceased to exist as an independent company.Meints (1992), 88; Ivey (1919), 48; Michigan Legislature (1870), 79-80.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Howell Lansing Railroad Railway companies established in 1868 Railway companies disestablished in 1870 Defunct Michigan railroads Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway