* The Rt Hon The Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( Lord Milford Haven's first cousin once-removed, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her daughter The Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine )

Clermont County was the birthplace of Ohio's first Democratic governor of the 20th century in 1847, John Pattison of Milford.

In the early 20th century, growth was spurred by the arrival of Frenchtown Porcelain Works, the establishment of the Milford plant of the Warren Paper Company, and the rise of the poultry industry.

While Fiordland as such remained one of the least-explored areas of New Zealand up to the 20th century, Milford Sound's natural beauty soon attracted national and international renown, and led to the discovery of the Mackinnon Pass in 1888, soon to become a part of the new Milford Track, an early walking tourism trail.

The scheme failed primarily due to a lack of funds and market interest, but it gave Milford a layout and ordered development that lasted well into the 20th century.

It was founded by George Edward Perry, widely known as " Ted ", and his wife Doreen Perry in 1980 Early LP releases included rarely recorded 20th century British music by composers such as Robin Milford, Alan Bush and Michael Berkeley.

Canon Robert Newman Milford ( 1829 – 1913 ), Rector of East Knoyle, Wiltshire ( 1865 – 1912 ) and Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire ( 1896 – 1912 ); their son Humphrey Sumner Milford was highly influential in early 20th century music and literature as Publisher to the University of Oxford.

However, Milford locals note that earlier in the 20th century the window was much greater, but erosion has reduced the size and width of the island and sandbar.

In the 18th century the community was called " Newbury ", a name that came from the three towns from which its land was taken – New Milford, Newtown, and Danbury.

At Saint Mary's Cemetery in Milford, Massachusetts a round tower was built of Milford granite in the late 19th century as a memorial to central Massachusetts ' Irish immigrants, of whom thousands are buried there.

The signature of Chief Waramaug, who led the Wyantenock tribe in the early 18th century, appears on several local Colonial-era property records, including " The New Milford North Purchase ," which encompassed a substantial swath of southern Litchfield County, including contemporary New Preston.

During much of the twentieth century Milford served primarily as the commercial center for much of southern Delaware's large agricultural community.

West Milford started out as New Milford in what was then western Bergen County in the 18th century, having been settled by disenchanted Dutch from Milford, New Jersey ( later renamed by the British as Newark ).

A town along the Crawfish River, Milford came into existence as a settler community in the mid 19th century.

During the next century and a half, the remaining section of Milford was known for shipbuilding, farming and oystering, although a small subset of industrial facilities also developed in town.

* Fino Field, owned by the local Post of American Legion, has been home to the Milford Legion baseball team for over half a century.

Like many New England riverside towns, Milford developed several thriving textile mills in the 19th century.

By the late 18th century the two local creeks were being used to load and unload goods, and surrounding settlements were established, including the medieval chapel, and Summer Hill Farm, the only man-made structures on the future site of Milford.

By the turn of the century, a mail coach was operating between London and Hubberston, and in 1800 the short lived Milford and Pembrokeshire Bank was established by Thomas Phillips, operating from a branch in the town.

The oldest building in Milford is All Saints church which is 12th / 13th century in date.

In July 2009, Tempe residents gained Interim Heritage Orders to protect the former quarry cliff face, ( the quarry where the stone for Milford Haven-Nelson Lodge was quarried from ), a 1880's man-made sandstone block retaining wall, a historical footpath with historical views, a late 19th century Federation cottage and a Californian bungalow, all of which were at risk of complete demolition from a 37 townhouse development.

In addition to the original town, 1932 saw a major expansion of the borough, to add Milton ( previously an urban district ) and the parishes of Milford on Sea and Pennington, and parts of other parishes, from Lymington Rural District-this extended the borough west along the coast to the border with Christchurch.

Milford took responsibility for overseas trade almost at once, and by 1906 he was making plans to send a traveller to India and the Far East jointly with Hodder and Stoughton.

" However intentionally or intuitively, Milford took three steps that launched OUP on a major operation.

Henry Tudor, a Welshman who was grandson of the former Queen, Catherine of Valois, and maternally descended from John of Gaunt took up leadership of the House of Lancaster and landed at Milford Haven in the Principality of Wales to invade with an army of foreign mercenaries.

Attrill took up rowing at Shanklin Rowing Club on the Isle of Wight and won novice at Milford regatta.

After attending Milford Academy in Connecticut, Gai played college basketball at Fairfield University ( also in the state ), where he was a three-time MAAC Defensive Player of the Year and took the Stags to the MAAC semifinals in 2005.

With little industry remaining in the Delaware River valley between Trenton and Milford, Conrail had little use for the line, though the state of New Jersey didn't help either due to its taxes on the former railroads that Conrail took over.

He took over his father's funeral home in Milford, Michigan in 1974, a job he has held ever since.

On June 16, 1988, Milford died of heart failure following open heart surgery several weeks earlier.

Over several years ending in 1869, county administrative functions were moved from Amherst first to Milford in 1866 then to the current seats of Manchester and Nashua.

Originally, the area was known as " Wepawaug ", after the small river which runs through the town, and which has given its name to several streets in both Milford and Orange.

Milford was one of the early settlements in south central Connecticut and, over time, gave rise to several new towns that broke off and incorporated separately.

* The Milford Daily News is a daily newspaper covering Milford and several nearby towns in Norfolk and Worcester counties.

They are offered by several companies, departing from the Milford Sound Visitors ' Centre.

Materials include hand-wrought bronze, Milford granite, Italian Travertine marble, several rate types of green Vermont marble, and Indiana limestone.

The town of Milford was founded in 1793, after Sir William Hamilton obtained an Act of Parliament in 1790 to establish the port at Milford, and takes its name from the natural harbour of Milford Haven, which was used for several hundred years as a staging point on sea journeys to Ireland and as a shelter by Vikings.

He made several recordings in his capacity as a conductor, including a performance of Gerald Finzi's Dies Natalis and music by Robin Milford and Edmund Rubbra.

He did a lot of surveying for the State, laying out town boundary lines, and it was, no doubt, on one of these surveying trips that he became impressed with the large areas of level land several miles north of the New Milford village, just north of the straits on the Housatonic River.

The track is usually completed by starting on the Queenstown side of the Southern Alps, at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu, and finishing on the Te Anau side, at the Divide, several kilometres from the Homer Tunnel to Milford Sound.

Until recent years the village of Milford consisted of three streets of terraced houses but in modern times several new housing estates have been built.

The so-called " Milford method " is presently used by several writers ' groups, including the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle.

The Turnpike intersects with several major expressways, namely U. S. Route 7 at Exit 15 in Norwalk, Route 8 at Exit 27A in Bridgeport, the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways at Exit 38 ( via the Milford Parkway ) in Milford, and Interstate 91 at Exit 48 in New Haven.

* New Milford High School ( disambiguation ), several schools