Access to the hamlet of Little Houghton is gained by travelling along Middlecliff Lane through the village of Middlecliffe.

In 1733 Green Tipped Bourbon Coffee seeds were brought from the coffee port of Mocha in Yemen, on a Company ship The Houghton and were planted at various locations around the Island where the plants flourished, despite general neglect.

* is a major two-lane east-west route across the state, connecting with Manistee on the west and Houghton Lake and Tawas City on the east.

The Trouble with Physics, Houghton Mifflin, Mariner 2007.

She placed fourth behind Mia Farrow, Judy Geeson and Katharine Houghton for a " Golden Laurel " award as the year's " Most Promising Newcomer " with the results published in the Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine.

Houghton is sometimes confused with, or thought to be close to, Houghton Lake ; the latter is actually located in the state's Lower Peninsula.

The first known European settler of Houghton was named Ransom Shelden, who set up a store named Ransom's near Portage Lake, though it is unclear whether this was in the same building as the 1852 Shelden and Shafer drugs, sometimes described as " the first commercial building constructed in Houghton ," which Shelden owned with his son Ransom B.

In the early 20th century, the Houghton County Traction Company ran a trolley system with service to many nearby towns.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as Christina and Matt Drayton. The film tells the story of Joanna " Joey " Drayton ( Katharine Houghton ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii.

The New Yorker started serializing Silent Spring in June 1962, and it was published in book form ( with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling ) by Houghton Mifflin on Sept. 27.

Nightingale was courted by politician and poet Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, but she rejected him, convinced that marriage would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing.

However, there was a Mr. Cone who together with his partner a Mr. Houghton had purchased a proved homestead in what is now Page Springs from Benjamin Coppel in 1878, farmed a year and then rented the property to a family from Arkansas.

Houghton was once the junction of two rail lines, both now abandoned, which may have something to do with the origin of its industry.

The Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad merged with the Houghton and Ontonagon after a squabble over land grant rights, and it incorporated on September 2, 1872 as the Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon Railroad.

Three years later, in 1846, the act was amended to make all that part of the state " embraced between the north boundary of township 49, the line between ranges 37 and 38 west and Lake Superior, together with islands in said lake west of the county of Schoolcraft, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the County of Houghton.

* Allouez is a small community at on US 41 / M-26 at the boundary line with Houghton County approximately one mile south of Ahmeek.

Houghton Lake is also a popular retirement location, with many retired residents known as " Snow Birds " who stay in Houghton Lake each year until winter.

The Houghton Lake Arts & Crafts Shows features artists & vendors with a wide variety of items for sale.

In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 – 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.

Because Geisel was under contract with Random House, Houghton Mifflin retained the school rights to The Cat in the Hat and Random House retained the rights to trade sales.

The original edition was a joint publication with Houghton Mifflin.

Unhappy with the outcome, Pinkerton justified his position, but his remarks about John Houghton, the Company Clerk, were deemed to be libellous, for which he was fined and spent some time in prison.

An early Houghton goal in Ireland's opening game against England was enough to clinch a 1 – 0 win.

Along with the purchase of Smiths Aerospace, the purchase included opening the first University Development Center in Houghton, Michigan, in the effort to work with University Students to provide training in engineering and software development.

Hancock and Houghton hold an annual celebration called Bridgefest to commemorate the opening of the bridge which united their two communities.

The bridge closed to traffic in 1979 with the opening of the Houghton Highway.

** Memorandum ( November 19, 2009 ): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities ( Alpena, MI ; Eau Claire, WI ; Hancock / Houghton, MI ; International Falls, MN ; Muskegon, MI ; Paducah, KY ; Sault Ste.

** Memorandum ( November 19, 2009 ): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities ( Alpena, MI ; Eau Claire, WI ; Hancock / Houghton, MI ; International Falls, MN ; Muskegon, MI ; Paducah, KY ; Sault Ste.

Houghton by this time had switched clubs from Runcorn to Birkenhead Wanderers, and on the 4 January 1896 he was called upon to face Wales in the opening game of the Championship.

** Memorandum ( November 19, 2009 ): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities ( Alpena, MI ; Eau Claire, WI ; Hancock / Houghton, MI ; International Falls, MN ; Muskegon, MI ; Paducah, KY ; Sault Ste.

** Memorandum ( November 19, 2009 ): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities ( Alpena, MI ; Eau Claire, WI ; Hancock / Houghton, MI ; International Falls, MN ; Muskegon, MI ; Paducah, KY ; Sault Ste.

** Memorandum ( November 19, 2009 ): closing out docket DOT-2009-0160 and opening up eight new dockets for the various communities ( Alpena, MI ; Eau Claire, WI ; Hancock / Houghton, MI ; International Falls, MN ; Muskegon, MI ; Paducah, KY ; Sault Ste.

Houghton is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and largest city in the Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula.

Houghton was named after Houghton County, which was named after Douglass Houghton, an American geologist and physician, primarily known for his exploration of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.

Dreamland is an unincorporated community on Copper Island ( the Keweenaw Peninsula ), in Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Hancock is on the north bank of the Keweenaw Waterway, opposite Houghton, Michigan.

Hancock is connected to Houghton, Michigan by the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, which crosses the dredged Keweenaw Waterway.

* CopperCountry. com Tourism and Events Information for Keweenaw, Houghton and Ontonagon Counties.

Houghton County is part of the Houghton micropolitan area, which also includes Keweenaw County.

The village of L ' Anse was founded in early 1871 when Jacob Houghton, chief engineer for the Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad, arrived to plat a preliminary route from the eastern end of Lake Michigamme to the head of the Keweenaw Bay.

" The new county included the present-day counties of Keweenaw and Baraga, and was organized into three election precincts ( townships ) at Eagle Harbor, Houghton, and L ' Anse.

Laurium is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County in the U. S. state of Michigan, in the center of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

Houghton Township is a civil township of Keweenaw County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

es: Municipio de Houghton ( condado de Keweenaw, Míchigan )

It is separated from the rest of the peninsula by the Keweenaw Waterway, a natural waterway which was dredged and expanded in the 1860s across the peninsula between the cities of Houghton ( named for Douglass Houghton ) on the south side and Hancock on the north.

The Keweenaw Fault runs fairly lengthwise through both Keweenaw and neighboring Houghton counties.

The Copper Country is an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States, including all of Keweenaw County, Michigan and most of Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon counties.

A sign in Copper Harbor, Michigan | Copper Harbor denotes the point at which US 41 begins. The Portage Lake Lift Bridge carries US 41 / M-26 across the Keweenaw Waterway from Houghton to Hancock

Torch Bay is a freshwater bay connecting Torch Lake with Portage Lake in Houghton County on the Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.