In 1673, an expedition headed by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, though possibly not the first Europeans to visit the area, was the first recorded to have crossed the Chicago Portage and travelled along the Chicago River.

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.

Houghton was the birthplace of professional ice hockey in the United States when the Portage Lakers were formed in 1903.

The area was " isolated " by dredging in 1859 and construction in the 1860s of a ship canal across an isthmus of the Keweenaw Peninsula from Portage Lake — on the east side of the Keweenaw Peninsula — to Lake Superior on the west.

Historically, " Kuparisaari " (' Copper Island ') was used to mean the Keweenaw north of Portage Lake, but more generically the copper country of the Upper Peninsula.

Scarver was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin in 1992.

Hadfield underwent basic flight training for the Royal Canadian Air Force at CFB Portage La Prairie in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba for which he was named top pilot in 1980.

Summit County was formed on March 3, 1840 from portions of Medina, Portage and Stark counties.

The first European settler in what is now Portage County was Abraham Honey in 1798 in the area now known as Mantua Township, followed by Asa Hall in what is now Atwater Township in April 1799.

When first settled, the area that presently constitutes Portage County was part of the original Jefferson County, which had been organized in 1797.

In 1802, all of what is now Portage County was organized under the name of Franklin Township with other townships being formed later.

Once the installation was complete, the packages installed as part of the GRP were intended to be replaced by the user with the same or newer versions built though Portage which would be built using the users ' system configuration rather than the generic builds provided by the GRP.

The current courthouse, constructed of red Portage stone, was completed in 1895.

In January 1968 a one-half mile wide strip was annexed along the Portage Township line, extending the town boundary to Lake Michigan.

This annexation was opposed by the City of Portage until the courts ruled in favor of the Town of Burns Harbor in 1998.

The following year, the area was reorganized into the townships of Copper Harbor, Eagle Harbor, Houghton, Portage, Algonquin, and L ' Anse, and the first election took place in July 1848.

The township was organized in 1837 with the name " West Portage ".

The city was incorporated from the entirety of the former Portage Township on December 31, 1963.

Austin Lake is in the southeast part of the city and was named for Moses Austin, who had emigrated to Portage Township from Genesee County, New York in 1833.

The predecessor of the village of Onekama was the settlement of Portage at Portage Point, first established in 1845, at the western end of Portage, at the outlet of Portage Creek.

There is an unincorporated community named Portage Lakes in Summit County, Ohio, near Elevation:, in the area.

Portage County is named for the portage between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas Rivers.

A post office named " Portage " opened on May 21, 1838, with John Davidson as the first postmaster.

He named it Portage after his birthplace of Portage County, Ohio.

Kenora, originally named Rat Portage, is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg.

The visitor center at Portage Glacier in Southcentral Alaska ( located within Chugach National Forest ) is named the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center.

( Algernon was probably named for Algernon B. Crosby, a postmaster in Portage County.

Portage Bay was named in 1913 because of the portage across the Montlake Isthmus that used to be necessary to move logs from Union Bay to Lake Union before the construction of the Ship Canal.

The train, named the Portage Flyer, was discontinued in 1958 and was relocated to an amusement park near St. Thomas, Ontario, until 1984.

However, he was reappointed to a second and then a third term as territorial governor in 1812 and 1815, and he was also named one of the three U. S. negotiators of the Treaties of Portage des Sioux in 1815.

The Ship Canal Bridge is a double-deck steel truss bridge that carries Interstate 5 over Seattle's Portage Bay ( part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, after which it is named ) between Capitol Hill and the University District.

Not surprisingly, one of the settlements on this stretch of coast is called Portage, named for the simplest method of passing between the two sounds.

Not surprisingly, one of the settlements on this stretch of coast is called Portage, named for the simplest method of passing between the two sounds.

The pelicans nest on many of the islands at the aptly named Mountain Portage Rapids.

The British band Blurt have a song named “ Portage & Main ” on their album Kenny Rogers ' Greatest Hit.

Junior Lessard of the Portage Terriers was named CJAHL Player of the Year in 2000.

Seton Lake, and hence Seton Portage, was named for a friend of Anderson's who had perished in the sinking of.

The Western Canadian Junior " B " Hockey Championship, the Keystone Cup, is named after the Keystone Centre as it was the alternate site used by the original tournament in 1983 that took place in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

The ferries that make this voyage from Grand Portage, MN do so in an hour and a half, and spend 4 hours on the island, allowing plenty of time for hiking, picnic lunches and taking in a guided hike or program by the park staff.

Peter Filder's map of 1819 has the name " Minetobaw Lake " marked for the lake north of Portage la Prairie.

The construction of the Canal Crossings Condominium by Moyle Inc. has obstructed some of the view of the neighbourhood from the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, one of the things for which the project has been criticised.

Several of the Portage Lakes were built as feeder reservoirs for the canals to maintain the required depth of.

The Ohio Department of Public Works maintained the canal lands for recreational purposes until 1949 when the Portage Lakes were transferred to the newly formed Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation.

Where source code is available, Portage normally supplies no precompiled binaries, continuing in the tradition of the ports collection, although for convenience, some large packages ( such as Mozilla Firefox and LibreOffice ) are also available as precompiled binaries for various architectures where compiling would otherwise be very time consuming.

After problems with a bug on his own system, Robbins halted Gentoo Linux development and switched to FreeBSD for several months, later saying " I decided to add several FreeBSD features to make our autobuild system ( now called Portage ) a true next-generation ports system.

In contrast, the Portage tree does not contain directories of Makefiles, but of so-called ebuilds, Bash-like scripts that describe separate functions to download, configure, make, install and remove a package and additional functions that can be used to set up the operating environment for a package.

Additionally, the city serves as the central hub of the Portage County Public Library which provides educational resources and programming for adults, young adults, and children.

Portage is known for its extensive network of historical parks and trails used for cycling, walking, canoeing, and other recreational activities.

The Savanna Portage was a major route for transportation in the southern Arrowhead, but its importance was magnified greatly with the arrival of European fur traders, who used the route to access rich resources of beaver and other fur animals in the upper Mississippi valley.

Portage Des Sioux was also one of the main film sites for the TV reality show on the CW a Farmer Wants a Wife ( the farmer in the 2008 season, also lives in Portage Des Sioux ).

The race is considered " one of the most prestigious sled dog races " for the continental United States, covering nearly four hundred miles on the route between Duluth and Grand Portage.

Up until the 1870s, the Portage River was the only way for local businesses to ship their products.

Port Clinton's transient dockage on the Portage River is a safe harbor for Lake Erie boaters.

Due to the steady growth of Streetsboro and its surrounding area within the past ten years, the city has become a retail hub for Portage County with the arrival of many national big-box retailers including Wal-Mart Supercenter, Target, Lowe's, The Home Depot and Staples.