Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . er people to separate corporate existence. An amicable agreement wasfinally arrived at May 3, 1779 ; and April 11th of the following year the townwas incorporated, being formally organized May 1, 1780. At that time thepopulation was just 760, and the meeting-house was the only public Revolutionary War, then drawing to a close, had severely tested theresources of the towns-people ; money worthy of the name was very scarce, and 4 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MILFOBD. the poverty of Mil
Leading business men of Milford, Hopkinton, and vicinity: embracing also Ashland, Holliston and Hopedale . er people to separate corporate existence. An amicable agreement wasfinally arrived at May 3, 1779 ; and April 11th of the following year the townwas incorporated, being formally organized May 1, 1780. At that time thepopulation was just 760, and the meeting-house was the only public Revolutionary War, then drawing to a close, had severely tested theresources of the towns-people ; money worthy of the name was very scarce, and 4 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MILFOBD. the poverty of Milfords residents was real and pressing, but they had pluck,faith and a boundless capacity for hard work, and although the town had a hard row to hoe for some years, it proved itself equal to the emergency, andwith true Yankee independence asked help or favors from no one. Milford islocated in the south-east corner of Worcester County and is bounded on thenorth by Hopkinton; on the east by Holliston, Med way and Bellingham; on thewest by Upton and on the south-west by Mendon ; its other boundaries being. Main Street Looking North from P. O. Middlesex and Norfolk Counties. It has an area of 19 square miles and tenacres; a length of six miles and an average breadth of about 3e miles. It isnearly equi-distant from Boston and Providence, being 30 miles from the formerand 25 miles from the latter city, and its centre is 18 miles south-east from Wor-cester. The average altitude is a trifle less than 473 feet; the maximum being637 feet 9 inches, and the minimum 308 feet. There are two small rivers intown, one of which, ^ the Serpentine Charles, rises in a large swamp near theHopkinton line, at a point 432 feet above the sea level. It falls 124 feet in itspassage through the town, but only affords two or three mill-sites within thelimits of Milford. The other stream—Mill River, as the white men havealways called it—is the outlet of North Pond, or Maspenock Pond, to use theIndian titl
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