Hancock, Michigan Hancock Hancock panorama from Houghton Hancock panorama from Houghton Location of Hancock, Michigan Location of Hancock, Michigan Website City of Hancock, Michigan Hancock is a town/city in Houghton County, Michigan, United States and is positioned on Copper Island, which is part of the Keweenaw Peninsula, on the Keewenaw Waterway directly opposite Houghton, Michigan.
The Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The territory on which Hancock was assembled was originally owned by James Hicks. The earliest building in what is now the City of Hancock was a log cabin erected in 1846 on the site of the Ruggles Mining Claim; it is no longer standing, the site taken up by the Houghton County Garage buildings. It was owned by Christopher Columbus (C.C.) Douglass, who came to live there in 1852.
The Quincy Mining Company established Hancock in 1859 after purchasing territory from Douglass and building an office and mine on the site. The town/city was titled after John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hancock's first store was assembled by the Leopold brothers in 1858; the store also homed the first postal service.
Hill, an agent for the Quincy Mining Company, platted Hancock Village in 1859.
In 1860, the Portage Lake smelter opened in Hancock.
The Mineral Range Railroad began providing passenger and freight service between Hancock and Calumet in 1873. Hancock was incorporated as a town/city in 1903. Hancock is on the north bank of the Keweenaw Waterway, opposite Houghton, Michigan.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.97 square miles (7.69 km2), of which 2.60 square miles (6.73 km2) is territory and 0.37 square miles (0.96 km2) is water. Hancock is connected to Houghton, Michigan by the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, which crosses the dredged Keweenaw Waterway.
The town/city is bounded on the south by the Portage Canal, parts of Quincy, Hancock and Franklin Townships; on the east by West Ripley; and on the north by Quincy and Hancock Townships.
Hancock has a humid continental climate, with typically long and snowy winters and much lake effect snow.
Hancock has the distinct ion of being the second snowiest town/city in the United States (and the snowiest town/city in the East) with snow flurry averaging 211.7 inches per year.
In the 1978 79 snow season, a whopping 390 inches of snow fell in Hancock.
Climate data for Hancock, Michigan (Houghton County Memorial Airport), 1981 2010 normals Hancock has been called "the focal point of Finns in the United States". Hancock hosts an annual midwinter festival called Heikinpaiva, celebrating the feast day of Saint Henrik, patron saint of Finland and Heikki Lunta.
Every summer, the metros/cities of Hancock and neighboring Houghton host a festival known as "Bridgefest," to memorialize the building of the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. Hancock sign The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 94.7% White, 1.2% African American, 1.0% Native American, 1.7% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.1% from other competitions, and 1.3% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,882 homeholds of which 21.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.4% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 50.4% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 34.1 years.
16.7% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 21.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.8% were from 25 to 44; 21.5% were from 45 to 64; and 19.3% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.0% White, 0.8% Black or African American, 0.9% Native American, 1.1% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.2% from other competitions, and 1.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,769 homeholds out of which 23.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 49.0% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.0% under the age of 18, 18.0% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The East Hancock neighborhood is part of the town/city and consists of many old Victorian-style homes which were once owned by quarrying business officials.
Doctors' Park, positioned in West Hancock near the former Portage View Hospital Building (now the Portage Campus of Finlandia University).
The Quincy Street Historic District encompasses the center of Hancock's downtown, covering the 100, 200, and 300 blocks of Quincy Street.
Elementary-school students attend the Gordon Barkell Elementary School (formerly Hancock Elementary School), middle school students Hancock Middle School and high-school students Hancock Central High School.
Hancock Central High and Hancock Middle School are now connected.
Hancock is the home of Finlandia University (formerly Suomi College).
Several parts of the ground of Michigan Technological University are also positioned in Hancock, including a former MTU "underground classroom" in Quincy Mine. The services runs between Hancock and Milwaukee, WI. Until January 31, 2007 this was directed by Greyhound Bus Lines.
Hancock Public Transit operates a demand bus which will take riders to anywhere in Hancock, Houghton, or Ripley.
Hancock is the sister town/city of Porvoo, Finland.
"City of Hancock website".
"Historic Hancock Walking tour".
"Hancock, Michigan".
"MI Hancock Houghton CO AP".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920.
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2010.
Hancock's Early Days.
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City of Hancock Hancock Public Schools View of Portage Lake Lift Bridge and the (Michigan Tech) ground from the Michigan Tech Fund offices in Hancock Municipalities and communities of Houghton County, Michigan, United States
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