It Happened in Milford - Part 2 of 10

IT HAPPENED IN MILFORD - Week 2 of 10
co-authored by Jean Tsang and David Gregory

In 1671 Ephraum Strong, Joseph Woodruff, and Colonel Benjamin Fenn were appointed to a committee to protect Indian land. The Indians had complained that they had sold their land and had no  place to leave. The town granted them one hundred acres in the Turkey Hill area (now part of Orange) for them to live, hunt, and fish.

St. Mary’s Church was built “with zeal and hearty co-operation of the faithful of St. Mary’s” (per Rev. P.H.McClean) on June 25, 1882. The building was replaced by this building in 1920.

Electric street lights came to Milford on March 14, 1919. Lights were installed on both sides of the green and from Cedar Beach toward Woodmont.

Photograph courtesy of Milford Public Library on the Treasures of Connecticut site.