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.
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.he Keweenaw Peninsula (/ËkiËwÉ¨nÉË/ KEE-wi-naw, sometimes locally /ËkiËvÉnÉË/) is the northernmost part of Michigan 's Upper Peninsula. It projects into Lake Superior and was the site of the first copper boom in the United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was roughly 43,200.