Milford Borough Hall is located at 30 Water Street, Milford NJ 08848.
Phone: 908‑995‑4323.
Neighborhoods
Sited along the Delaware River, Milford, incorporated in 1911, was settled in the mid-18th century (then known as Burnt Mills) when a grist mill was established here.
The Milford Village Emerges [†]
In July 1795, John and Susanna Robertson sold the 357-acre Òtract of land and plantation known by the name of Burnt Mill farm to Colonel. Thomas Lowery (circa 1736-1809), a prominent Hunterdon County landowner, merchant and public official, for £2,716.68. Lowery, who had recently sold his property at Alexandria (present-day Frenchtown), relocated to Burnt Mill and over the next ten years made extensive improvements to the riverside hamlet, first renamed Lowerytown and then New Milford, including the construction of several mills and dwellings.69 According to local historian Henry Race, Lowery built two dwellings as his residence in 1796-97, the second (inventory #28) a replacement for the first, which subsequently became a tavern (site, inventory #24).70 Edward Thomas, the communityÕs mid-19th-century mill owner, recollected that Òin 1798 ÔLowery contracted with Thomas Elliot to build the old, red, frame mill, and the saw mill along the river, for £2100. They were finished in 1800.
Nearby Towns: Alexandria Twp • Bethlehem Twp • Bloomsbury Boro • Bridgeton Twp • Frenchtown Boro • Holland Twp • Kingwood Twp • Nockamixon Twp • Pohatcong Twp • Tinicum Twp •