Milford, Massachusetts Milford, Massachusetts Official seal of Milford, Massachusetts Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Milford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
First settled in 1662 and incorporated in 1780, Milford became a booming industrialized and quarrying improve in the 19th century due to its unique locale which includes the close-by source of the Charles River, the Mill River, the Blackstone River watershed, and large quantities of Milford pink granite.
The King Philip's War finished the town in 1676, but pioneer returned in 1680. The Mill River flows through Milford and had a several conspicuous fords that were familiar to the Native Americans, and used by the early white settlers.
These "Mill (river) fords" gave Milford its name. Milford was incorporated April 11th, 1780 and the first Town Hall assembled in 1819; a brick structure later titled the Town House School.
The Milford Town Hall was assembled in 1854 by architect Thomas Silloway. Milford is famous for its pink Milford granite, identified in 1870. Milford quarries fueled the small-town economy until about 1940. The granite has been used for small-town buildings such as Memorial Hall, the Bancroft Memorial Library in Hopedale, Worcester City Hall, and the Boston Public Library.
Other notable buildings include the initial Pennsylvania Station in New York City, the chief postal service in New York City, and most recently the Singapore Changi Airport in 2002. The Battle Monument at West Point is also made of Milford granite, and is assumed to be the biggest column of polished granite in the Western Hemisphere. The Milford Hospital was donated in 1903 by Governor Eben Sumner Draper. Today, the community care facility exists as the Milford Regional Medical Center.
In January 2008, the Center opened a cancer treatment facility with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The Center is affiliated with UMass Medical Center as a teaching hospital. In 2015 the hospital instead of a $54 million expansion universal that created a new emergency department and updated the intensive care unit, as well as patient rooms. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 14.9 square miles (39 km2), of which 14.6 square miles (38 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 1.82%, is water.
Milford is drained by the Charles River.
The town is crossed by Interstate 495, as well as state routes 16, 85, 109, and 140.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 92.95% White, 1.35% Black or African American, 0.11% Native American, 1.76% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.99% from other competitions, and 1.77% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The core of Milford's governing fitness is the representative town meeting, where propel people can voice their opinions, but more importantly, directly effect shifts in the community.
Along with a Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator, Planning Board, Finance Committee, etc., the people of Milford have input into how the town is run.
The Milford Public Library was established in 1858. In fiscal year 2008, the town of Milford spent 1.5% ($966,758) of its budget on its enhance library some $35 per person. Milford Public Schools operates six enhance schools and the town also has one catholic school.
9 12: Milford High School (MHS) K 6: Milford Catholic Elementary School (MCES) 9 12: Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School (eligible town) (located in Upton) Memorial Hall, home and exhibition of the Milford Historical Commission Ted's was left abandoned by the town and vandalized, eventually moved to make way for a new fire station.
The Milford Daily News is a daily journal covering Milford and a several nearby suburbs in Norfolk and Worcester counties.
WMRC 1490 - AM is a airways broadcast licensed to serve Milford.
Channel 8 is the Milford town Public-access tv station that produces and runs a range of small-town shows, and Channel 11 is the Milford Educational-access tv station and runs School Committee meetings as well as projects made by students in the high school's video manufacturing classes.
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