Prior to 1720, English Mustard powder was ground up coarse, to make a mustard as coarse as Meaux mustard still is today. In 1720, though, a woman named Mrs Clement, who lived in Durham, starting grinding her mustard seed very smoothly: she put her ground seed through a mill, then sieved them to remove the hulls.
The 2014 Houghton, Michigan, population is 7,692. There are 1,730 people per square mile (population density). The median age is 21.5. The US median is 37.2. 23.25% of people in Houghton, Michigan, are married. 4.50% are divorced. The average household size is 2.37 people. 32.34% of people are married, with children. 9.35% have children, but are single.
Michigan ranked 8th in population in the US with an estimated total of 10,050,446 in 2002, an increase of 1.1% since 2000. Between 1990 and 2000, Michigan's population grew from 9,295,297 to 9,938,444, an increase of 6.9%. The population is projected to reach 10.1 million by 2025.