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Milford, NH - History
We would like to provide the residents of Milford a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Milford Home page. The Milford Home page provides as much information as possible on Milford. Knowing Milford’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Milford’s Home page, you will also find Milford’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Milford has a population of 15994. 46.5% of Milford’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.5 are female. 52.1% of Milford is married and 57.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $266,634, and the average rent is $1,310. Household median income in Milford is $74,285, and the individual median income is $38,778. Milford’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.7%), Multiple(6.4%), Hispanic(6%), Asian(2.8%), Black(1.5%), Other(0.5%), Native(0.1%).
Milford separated from neighboring Amherst in 1794. Like most towns named Milford in the United States, its name comes from the fact that it grew around a mill built on a ford—in this case on the Souhegan River.Milford was once home to numerous granite quarries, which produced a stone that was used, among other things, to make the pillars for the U.S.
Treasury in Washington, D.C.—pillars that can be seen on the back of the American $10 bill. Its nickname remains "The Granite Town", although only one small quarry is in operation as of 2017. Like many New England riverside towns, Milford developed several thriving textile mills in the 19th century.
That industry left New England by World War II, but Milford remains the commercial and retail center for surrounding towns. Major employers included casting company Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., a metal cable manufacturer, Hendrix Wire and Cable Inc., and a contract manufacturing solutions company, Cirtronics Corporation.
In 2018, local firm Alene Candles became one of the first companies in the state to implement a "conscious leadership" program in a manufacturing production setting.Milford is home to the Milford State Fish Hatchery. The town also holds the Souhegan Valley Boys & Girls Club, built on the former home of the now-bankrupt private theater American Stage Festival. Milford was a stop on the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves.
It was also the home of Harriet E. Wilson, who published the semi-autobiographical novel Our Nig: Or, Sketches in the Life of a Free Black in 1859, making it the first novel by an African-American woman published in the country. Officially designated "Union Square", the Milford Oval is neither square nor oval in shape, but rather triangular.
The "square" name in American parlance denotes a town common irrespective of geometry, and the "oval" name dates from the 19th century, when it was oval in shape. The Oval is the town center, with the Pillsbury Bandstand as its centerpiece and the Souhegan River as the backdrop. The Oval is formed by a modified traffic rotary in which State Highways 13 and 101A intersect, with northbound 13 and eastbound 101A passing straight through and crossing each other at a right angle with a stop sign for traffic on Route 13.
For many years, the Oval's traffic flow was treated as a series of three individual intersections of three one-way streets, resulting in the unusual arrangement whereby vehicles entering the Oval had right-of-way over vehicles turning left to continue through the Oval. This treatment was reversed in the 1980s to conform with traffic rotary norms whereby vehicles already in the Oval have right-of-way over vehicles entering the Oval.
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