The Howell and Lansing Railroad is a defunct railroad which proposed to construct a railway line between Howell and Lansing in central Michigan. The company incorporated on June 23, 1868 and began grading along the 33-mile (53 km) 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.[1]
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- ^ Meints (1992), 88; Ivey (1919), 48; Michigan Legislature (1870), 79-80.
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- Crittenden, A. Riley (1911). A History of the Township and Village of Howell, Michigan. Howell, Michigan: Livingston tidings print.
- Ivey, Paul (1919). The Pere Marquette Railroad Company. Lansing, MI: Michigan Historical Commission. OCLC 66109442.
- Meints, Graydon M. (1992). Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-318-3.
- Michigan Legislature (1870). Joint Documents of the State of Michigan for the year 1870.