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Houghton: July 26, 2006: Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall† 399 Quincy Street Hancock: April 15, 1977: Hoar Family Mausoleum: Forest Hill Cemetery near Michigan Tech campus Portage Township: June 15, 1995: Houghton County Courthouse† 401 East Houghton Street Houghton: July 26, 1974: Houghton Fire Hall: 404 East Montezuma Street Houghton ...
Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. was born on June 10, 1852, the same year his father arrived in Houghton. He was the first child born of a settler in Houghton County. In 1893, Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. purchased several lots on College Avenue from his father's copper company. By 1896, he had built this Queen Anne house for his family. However, the Sheldens ...
The Shelden Avenue Historic District contains the western Upper Peninsula's largest concentration of architecturally significant commercial buildings. [3] The district includes primarily commercial structures, but warehouses, lodge halls, municipal buildings, a movie theater, and a railroad passenger depot are also included within the district's boundaries.
The Quincy Dredge Number Two (previously known as the Calumet and Hecla Dredge Number One) is a dredge currently sunk in shallow water in Torch Lake, across M-26 from the Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District and just east of Mason in Osceola Township. [2]
The Mason County Courthouse was built in 1893–94, and is the fourth structure to serve as a courthouse for Mason County. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque structure built of Jacobsville sandstone from Houghton County. 10: Not-A-Pe-Ka-Gon Site: Not-A-Pe-Ka-Gon Site: July 27, 1973 : Address Restricted: Mason County
Houghton was the birthplace of professional ice hockey in the United States when the Portage Lakers were formed in 1903. Houghton is the home of the Portage Lake Pioneers Senior Hockey Team. The team's home ice is Dee Stadium, named after James R. Dee. Dee Stadium was originally called the Amphidrome, before it was severely damaged in a 1927 fire.
The Houghton Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, specifically the Keweenaw Peninsula, anchored by the city of Houghton. [1] As of the 2020 census, the μSA had a population of 39,407.
Portage Charter Township is a charter township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 3,189. [3] The city of Houghton is adjacent to the north side of the township. Portage Lake is the eastern boundary in the north, and the township extends well south of Houghton to the Baraga County ...