Kerns Hotel Fire / Box 23 Club

Historical marker location:

Lansing, Michigan

( Marker is at the intersection of N. Grand Avenue and Michigan Avenue, on the right when traveling north on N. Grand Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1987

The Kellogg brothers, John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg, who invented corn flakes, were born in Michigan. They began their cereal company in Battle Creek, Michigan, and the city became known as the "Cereal Capital of the World" due to the many cereal companies that were based there.