New PDF release: Milford (Images of America)

By Christopher J. Thompson

Settled at the fringe of the Monadnock sector, Milford is a turning out to be group that has controlled to take care of its small-town allure. citizens have taken nice satisfaction of their neighborhood over the years. In 2002, the nationwide belief for ancient maintenance presented Milford one in every of simply 5 nationwide nice American major highway Awards for the revitalization of the downtown sector, an award that might no longer were attainable with out a lot volunteer and workforce effort.

With photographs and phrases, Milford appears again on the humans, locations, and occasions that experience molded the neighborhood into the beautiful one it's this day. It comprises perspectives of areas which have been long past for many years: the White Elephant store, the Milford resort, French & Heald furiture corporation, and the numerous operating granite quarries, which of their time earned Milford the nickname the "granite city of the Granite State." good represented are the old downtown zone and the typical, identified additionally as "the oval" because it bore that form within the 1800s.

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