Milford, Bracken County, Kentucky


Aerial View of Milford, looking north, 1908 note iron bridge at north end of town	Two Aerial views of Milford, c. 1908


Milford Street Scene	Milford High School, 1937

Hear about the cashier of Milford’s bank who took up with a 17-year-old girl, took $50,000 of the bank’s money and headed to New York City? Read it here.

In 1989, the Courier Journal Magazine ran a feature story on
Louis LaMonda and his service station. You can read it here.
The pictures accompanying it are the four below.


Milford Garage, previously a blacksmith shop	The Ogden General Store - 1930	Milford, 1939 From a Corp of Engineers study for a Falmouth Dam


Brough's Store, Milford	Interior of Everett Moore's Store in Milford	Milford School and Gym, 1941

Home #175 from the Sears and Roebuck Catalog of 1913. The catalog
says there was one sold to Springerton, Illinois; Peabody, Kansas; Brush,
Colorado; and Milford, Kentucky. From $815 to $1,732.

Dry, dry, oh my it's dry
There ain't enough water to drown a sigh,
Tho' we're doin' fairly well right now, by Jing
But look out for the comin' Spring.

Crops are wretched and the outlook's forlorn
There's a mightly slim chance for Old King Corn,
Save your pennies and lay close to home
There's nuthin' in sight and still "dry as a bone."
Thos. Ogden, Milord, Ky.
from the Maysville Public Ledger, July 10, 1914

"An Iron bridge near Riley’s mill, below Milford, was washed from the foundation last Saturday night by the flood in the North Fork. This bridge is in the neighborhood of 100 feet long. Unless the bridge can be replaced, it will mean a loss of $1,000 to the county. "
Falmouth Outlook, July 23, 1915

The high waters referred to here were part of a huge weather system that brought torrential rains
and devastating winds to much of Northern Kentucky on July 7, 1915. See more here.

$50,000 fire hits Milford in 1956. Story's here.	Big 1915 sale of the Milford Mills, here.
"Milford, Ky. was almost swept away by fire. Loss about $100,000, with scarcely any insurance." from Maysville's Evening Bulletin, 1887	A short history of the Milford Church is here. (pdf)
The Library of Congress site has 15 (!) different pictures of Milford's Licking River Bridge, here.	Night Riders set upon a Milford man shipping tobacco. Incident here.