About Milford |
The city of Milford has a population of 6,000. We are a suburb of Cincinnati,
Ohio, which is 13 miles west of Milford. The metropolitan area of Cincinnati
has a population of 2,000,000 and we are within a two hour drive of Columbus,
Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky and Lexington, Kentucky.
The
city of Milford is on the banks of the Little Miami River and was mapped
out in 1805. The downtown area of Milford, where the festival
will be held,
has old stone buildings built in the early 1800's and other brick buildings
built in the middle 1800's through the 1930's. The festival will be held
on Main Street
for a 3 block area, right in the heart of the downtown area. Main Street
is both U.S. Route 50 and State Route 28. Both of these routes are easily
accessed from
I-275.
Main Street is a tree lined street with small independently owned
businesses and restaurants. We have no franchised businesses in this area
of Milford.
History
The area known as Milford, Old Milford, and Miami Township was built on a
survey by John Nancarrow, a Revolutionary War veteran from Virginia. The
area known as Miami Township was named after the Little Miami River and the
tribe of Native Americans who once controlled this area. Miami Township was
originally named O'Bannon Township in honor of the county's first surveyor.
Because of financial troubles, John Nancarrow never visited Milford and sold his share of 230 acres of land to Phillip Gatch on Dec. 20, 1802, for a total of $920.00. Four years later, Gatch decided to sell 125 acres to Ambrose Ransom who, soon after, sold 64 acres to John Hageman. Hageman became the first permanent settler and named the area Hageman's Mills.
By 1815 Hageman had left for Indiana, and the name "Milford" had come into popular use. In 1818 a wooden bridge across the Little Miami was completed, making the ford obsolete. More than a century later, on January 1, 1920, the mill that was the city's namesake burned down.
Click on image below to get a map of area.
Official City of Milford Website here.
Downtownmilford.com website here.
Please contact us at
buskerfest@yahoo.com
