The Milford Mill
A 1905 painting by August Goeser

 

Milford, looking north, 1908, note iron bridge at north end of town	Two Aerial views of Milford, c. 1908

 

Milford Street Scene	Milford High School, 1937

Milford is excited about getting a new bank. Grand opening story is here.

Hear about the cashier of Milford's bank who took up with a 17-year-old girl, took $50,000
of the bank's money and headed to New York City? 

The scandal begins, until the banker is apprehended.

...and he left a note for his wife.

Milford becomes an official town (pdf) on March 21, 1870.

Milford decides not to be an official town in 1876,

LaMonda's Milford Garage

In 1989, the Courier Journal Magazine ran a feature story on
 Louis LaMonda and his service station.  You can read it here. 
The pictures accompanying it are the four below.

 

Milford Garage, previously a blacksmith shop	The Ogden General Store - 1930	Milford, 1939 From a Corp of Engineers study for a Falmouth Dam

 

Brough's Store, Milford	Interior of Everett Moore's  Store in Milford	Milford School and  Gym, 1941

 

Milford Scenes Thanks to Rodney Marsh for the above two images.

 

Home #175 from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog of 1913.  The catalog
says there was one sold to Springerton, Illinois; Peabody, Kansas; Brush,
Colorado; and Milford, Kentucky.  From $815 to $1,732.

 

from the August, 1916 issue of Field and Stream

 

Dry, dry, oh my it's dry
There ain't enough water to drown a sigh,
Tho' we're doin' fairly well right now, by Jing
But look out for the comin' Spring.

Crops are wretched and the outlook's forlorn
There's a mightly slim chance for Old King Corn,
Save your pennies and lay close to home
There's nuthin' in sight and still “dry as a bone.”
Thos. Ogden, Milford, Ky.
from the Maysville Public Ledger, July 10, 1914

	Night Rider victim wins civil suit.	Night Riders on the move in Milford
	Night Riders set upon a Milford man shipping tobacco.  Incident here.
	If you're not familiar with the Night Riders, and the Kentucky Tobacco Wars of 1908 or so, you should read this page of our web site for a little background.

“An Iron bridge near Riley's Mill, below Milford, was washed from the foundation last Saturday night by the flood in the North Fork.  This bridge is in the neighborhood of 100 feet long.  Unless the bridge can be replaced, it will mean a loss of $1,000 to the county.” Falmouth Outlook, July 23, 1915

The high waters referred to here were part of a huge weather system that brought torrential rains  and devastating winds to much of Northern Kentucky on July 7, 1915.  See more here.

“Near Milford, Thursday, Mr. Robertson, owner of the Santa Fe mills, shot his miller, Henry Pollard.  The ball entered the bowels, and the wound will prove fatal.”  Courier-Journal, February 11, 1882
“Among the numerous enterprises brought into existence by the construction of the Covington and Lexington Railroad, is one recently set on foot by the people of Bracken county, to build a turnpike road from Milford in that county, to intersect the Railroad at Falmouth.” from the Louisville Daily Courier, October 8, 1853	Indianapolis Times, February 4, 1921
Maysville's Evening Bulletin, April 6, 1903
Fines on bootleggers free Milford from debt, 1922	Union troops spent the winter in Milford in 1861.
$50,000 fire hits Milford in 1956.  Story's here.	"Milford, Ky. was almost swept away by fire.  Loss about $100,000, with scarcely any insurance." from Maysville's Evening Bulletin, 1889
The fire on April 18,1889 finds conditions in Milford “deplorable in the extreme,” and they make a desperate plea for aid. Read it here. More on the fire here.
Big 1915 sale of the Milford Mills, here.	A short history of the Milford Church is here.  (pdf)
The Library of Congress site has 15 (!) different pictures of Milford's Licking River Bridge, here.
“Kentucky has the liveliest centenarian yet produced. Lucy Kennon is her name. She is black, lives at Milford, Bracken county, and was formerly a slave. She is within a few days of being 123 years old, has been married seven times, and is the mother of twenty-three children; teeth sound, eye-sight good, hearing perfect, and memory astonishing. What is equally remarkable, she has always been an invalid, and never, within the recollection of the living, did a day’s work.” Russian River (California) Flag, June 1, 1876

The Cairo (IL) Bulletin, September 14, 1881

 

Happy Easter, from Everett Moore's General Store