East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Most of the city lies within Ingham County behind a smaller portion extending north into Clinton County. At the 2020 Census the population was 47,741. Located directly east of the disclose capital of Lansing, East Lansing is well-known as the home of Michigan State University. The city is ration of the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area.

East Lansing is located upon land that was an important junction of two major Native American groups: the Potawatomi and the Fox. By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was traditional to affix a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel amongst Detroit and Lansing, which clip right through what is now East Lansing. The toll road was ended in 1853, and included seven toll houses in the middle of Lansing and Howell.

Michigan State University was founded in 1855 and established in what is now East Lansing in 1857. For the first four decades, the students and knack lived in the region of entirely on the scholarly campus. A few commuted from Lansing, and that number increased with a streetcar heritage was built in the 1890s, but there were few places to enliven in the then-rural Place surrounding the campus.

That started to correct in 1887, when professors William J. Beal and Rolla C. Carpenter created Collegeville, along what is now Harrison Road and Center and Beal Streets, north of Michigan Avenue. Few gift were attracted to the location, and the first residents were “teamsters and laborers”. In 1898, the College Delta subdivision (including what is now Delta Street) had the retain of the instructor itself, which provided utilities, and several professors built homes there (one of which survives today at 243 W. Grand River Ave.). Other subdivisions followed.