Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . culture, although theeastern frontier bounds a range of good farms, which are thoroughly tilled andreasonably productive. Milford has no natural wealth of any kind, with the exception of the exten-sive deposits of granite found in some portions of the town. This stone is now 6 HI8T0BICAL SKETCH OF MILFOBD. quite largely quarried, and Milford granite has a high and recognizedposition in the market. Up to the year 1845 the growth of Mil ford was slowand uncertain, but the branch railroad to
Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . culture, although theeastern frontier bounds a range of good farms, which are thoroughly tilled andreasonably productive. Milford has no natural wealth of any kind, with the exception of the exten-sive deposits of granite found in some portions of the town. This stone is now 6 HI8T0BICAL SKETCH OF MILFOBD. quite largely quarried, and Milford granite has a high and recognizedposition in the market. Up to the year 1845 the growth of Mil ford was slowand uncertain, but the branch railroad to South Framingham then stimulatedprogress, and the development since that date has been continuous and gratify-ing. It is interesting to know that shoe manufacturing was begun here as earlyas 1795, although operations were conducted on a very small scale for more thana quarter of a century ; the largest shoe factory in town in 1825 being two storieein height and 32x20 feet in dimensions. Although Milford was not an incorpo-rated town when the Eevolution broke out, it is but just that passing referencs. Music Hall Block and Vicinity. should be made to the part her prospective citizens took in that struggle, for, asresidents of Mendon, they manned two of the companies the town put into thefield. The most famous of these men was Alexander Scammell, who was afavorite of General Washington, and was made adjutant general of the UnitedStates armies. He graduated from Harvard in 1769, and was field officer at thesiege of Yorktown in 1780, where he was surprised and captured by the enemyscavalry, and was mortally wounded by a cowardly Hessian after he had yieldedhimself as prisoner. Milford sent a company to Boston during the war of 1812,but it only remained sixty days, there being no occasion to make use of itsservices. The towns action in the late Eebellion was worthy of her pastrecord, for she furnished 1202 men—195 more than the law required. The sumof $62,600 was appropriated for
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