Milford, Pennsylvania

Pike County Courthouse Milford Pike County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Milford highlighted.svg Location in Pike County and the state of Pennsylvania.

Milford Historic District National Register of Historic Places Milford, Pennsylvania is positioned in Pennsylvania Milford, Pennsylvania Location Roughly along Broad, Harford, Ann, Catharine, High, and Fourth Sts., Milford, Pennsylvania Milford is a borough in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat.

Its populace was 1,021 at the 2010 census. Located on the upper Delaware River, Milford is part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the larger New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

Milford was established in 1796 after the American Revolutionary War as a United States settlement on the Delaware River by Judge John Biddis, one of Pennsylvania's first four circuit judges.

Milford has a large number of historical momentous buildings, many constructed in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries.

Some are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, while various the rest are encompassed in the Milford Historic District, also listed on the NRHP.

Of the 655 buildings in the district, 400 of them have been deemed to be historically significant. The precinct is characterized by a range of Late Victorian architecture, as well as Mid-19th Century Revival, and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals.

Grey Towers National Historic Site, the ancestral home ford Pinchot, the noted conservationist, two-time Governor of Pennsylvania and first head of the U.S.

From 1904 to 1926, Grey Towers was the site of summer field study sessions for the Master's program of the Yale School of Forestry, together with the Forester's Hall, a commercial building that was adapted and period for this purpose. Jervis Gordon Grist Mill Historic District, Hotel Fauchere and Annex, Metz Ice Plant, and Pike County Courthouse are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Pike County Historical Society Museum in Milford includes in its compilation the "Lincoln Flag", which was draped on President Abraham Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre the evening he was assassinated.

At the intersection of Broad and High is a enhance square just as there is at Broad and Market in Philadelphia and most of Milford's official buildings are positioned there. Within the grid, East-West streets are numbered, Second through Seventh, with Broad Street falling between Fourth and Fifth Streets, while North-South streets are titled after Judge Biddis' children: Ann, Catherine, George, John, Sarah and Elizabeth. In between both the titled and numbered streets are alleys, titled after berries and fruit. In intact Milford, Broad Street is also marked as U.S.

Milford is positioned on an escarpment above the Delaware River.

All waterways there which drain into the river fall the 100-foot (30 m) difference in height, creating what is known as a fluviarchy, a network of waterfalls, putatively the most notable one east of the Rocky Mountains. These also provided water power to mills, which contributed to Milford's economy in the 19th century.

Milford is served by the Delaware Valley School District.

Milford is home to Pike County Arts and Crafts, an art education organization that was chosen by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts as winner of the 2007 Pennsylvania State "Creative Community Award.". Since 1950, Pike County Arts and Crafts has also hosted an annual art show each July in Borough Hall. Kennedy. On the National Register of Historic Places since 1980, the hotel was restored in 2006. Milford is home to a several camps directed by the Jewish organization NJY Camps: Camp Nah-Jee-Wah, Cedar Lake Camp, and Teen Age Camp.

The Black Bear Film Festival is an annual autonomous film festival, which takes place the weekend after Columbus Day in October primarily at the historic Milford Theater.

The Milford Music Festival takes place each June.

The 2009 Milford Music Festival was headlined by Vanessa Carlton, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter/pianist who is from Milford.

Milford was the initial locale of the Milford Science Fiction Writers Workshop, established in 1956 by Damon Knight, James Blish and Kate Wilhelm, all inhabitants of Milford at the time.

A view of Milford from "The Knob", looking east down Broad Street "The Columns", home of the Pike County Historical Society Museum National Register of Historic Places listings in Pike County, Pennsylvania The Milford Branch of the Pike County Public Library, positioned in the Community House National Register of Historic Places.

"2001 Guide to Pike County Pennsylvania", Pike County Chamber of Commerce a b Historical marker on monument in Milford, erected by the Pike County Historical Society in July 1965.

"A Tour of Milford, Pennsylvania" Travel and Leisure (March 2009) "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database).

"National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Forester's Hall" (PDF).

Pike County Historical Society "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".

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