"The Point" is the confluence of the Grand River and the Red Cedar River.
If you look across the Red Cedar to the east, you will see the site of "Lansing Mineral Spring House". This was a hotel that featured sulfur baths that were thought to cure a wide variety of diseases between 1890 and 1915. Famous people from all over the country and Europe came to Lansing to find a cure.
An old steamboat operated between 1884 and 1917 from near the Logan (now MLK) street bridge to what was called Leadley’s Park, and later named Waverly Park, located north of the river and east of Waverly Road. That steamboating was modern compared to the trips of the “Pickwick” from a landing place just above the dam at North Lansing up to the old Mineral Springs Hotel in the 1870s. This stood near the confluence of the (Red) Cedar and Grand rivers. The Mineral Springs has long since burned and is nearly forgotten. The Grand River, in the days when boating was popular upon it, was not the thick, green, scum-encrusted affair it was in the 1940s. Then it did not receive the filth of a big city or scarcely any at all.
Steamboat at Leadley Park
Steamship Pickwick
Coaster at Leadley Park
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