Milford, Pennsylvania
| Borough of Milford | |
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 Pike County Courthouse, built in 1874
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Pike |
| Elevation | 499 ft (152.1 m) |
| Coordinates | 41°19′27″N 74°48′10″W / 41.32417°N 74.80278°WCoordinates: 41°19′27″N 74°48′10″W / 41.32417°N 74.80278°W |
| Area | 0.5 sq mi (1.3 km2) |
| - land | 0.5 sq mi (1 km2) |
| - water | 0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0% |
| Population | 1,021 (2010) |
| Density | 2,042/sq mi (788.4/km2) |
| Incorporated | 1874 |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP Code | 18337 |
| Area code | 570 Exchange: 296 |
 Location in Pike County and the state of Pennsylvania.
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 Location of Pennsylvania in the United States
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| Website: http://milfordpa.us/ | |
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Milford Historic District
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Forester's Hall, designed by Calvert Vaux and Richard Morris Hunt
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| Location | Roughly along Broad, Harford, Ann, Catharine, High, and Fourth Sts., Milford, Pennsylvania |
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| Area | 22 acres (8.9 ha) |
| Architect | George Barton et al. |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Mid-19th Century Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 98000898 |
| Added to NRHP | July 23, 1998 |
Milford is a borough in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat. Its population 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.
The area along the Delaware River had long been settled by the Lenape, an Algonquian-speaking indigenous tribe that lived in the mid-Atlantic coastal areas, including western Long Island, and along this river at the time of European colonization. The English also called the people the Delaware, after the river they named after one of their colonial leaders.
Milford was founded 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. He named the settlement after his ancestral home in Wales.
Milford has a large number of historical significant buildings, many constructed in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. Some are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, while numerous others are included 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 district is characterized by a variety of Late Victorian architecture, as well as Mid-19th Century Revival, and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals.
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