About New Milford, Connecticut

New Milford is a town of 28,115 people in Litchfield County, on the Housatonic River, and it covers more land than any other town in Connecticut. In 1703 buyers from Milford paid Papetoppe and other native owners sixty pounds in money and twenty in goods for the township. John Noble Sr. left Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1707 and settled here with his daughter Sarah, who was eight. On October 17, 1711, twelve families of about 70 people petitioned the General Assembly, and the town was organized in 1712.

The settlers ordained Daniel Boardman as their Congregational minister in 1716. The Housatonic Railroad reached town in 1840, and stores soon filled the blocks between the long green and the tracks. In the northwest, Sylvanus Merwin bought land where the line would run and persuaded the railroad to halt there so passengers could eat at his hotel, which opened in 1843 and served as a station until 1915. In 1871 residents founded a Village Improvement Society, and more than three hundred others later copied it.

“The village of New Milford consists of about 60 dwelling houses and 5 mercantile stores.”
John Warner Barber, 1836
  • The falls at MetichawonBefore the English came, the native people called this part of the Housatonic Wyantenock. At its heart was a waterfall, Metichawon. Each spring lamprey eels crowded up the river but could not climb it, so the falls made a prime fishing spot. The sachem Weraumaug kept a great bark wigwam nearby, painted inside with animals, birds and fish. Long after the native families moved to Stockbridge, they came back every year to fish for lampreys there.
  • Roger Sherman's shoemaker yearsRoger Sherman, a shoemaker's son trained in that trade, came in 1743. In 1761 he moved to New Haven, and he later signed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Town Hall stands on the site of his house, where the Roger Sherman Chapter placed a tablet in his honor in 1897.
  • 285 men for the RevolutionThe 7th Connecticut Regiment, also called the 19th Continental, was raised in New Milford on September 16, 1776. Its men fought at Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. Out of 2,776 residents, the town sent 285 men to the war.
  • Leaf for cigar wrappersBy World War I, twelve New Milford packing and warehouse firms readied leaf for cigar wrappers. Farmers grew a few acres from April to September, and the warehouses sorted and packed the crop through fall and winter. The oldest left, E. A. Wildman & Co.'s on Bridge Street, dates from 1870. Carl F. Schoverling's 1897 Flatiron Building was called one of the nation's most advanced, and J. S. Halpine's, from about 1900, cured leaf until the late 1930s.
  • The fire of May 5, 1902Fire swept the corner of Bank and Main Streets on May 5, 1902, destroying the New England House and the buildings of two banks. The banks hired Wilson Potter, who designed a Classical Revival building for them. It went up from 1902 to 1904 at the head of Bank Street, looking out over the green. The United Bank Building joined the National Register in 1982.

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Names on the New Milford map

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Places and landmarks35

  • Bear Hill
  • Bank Street Theatre
  • Birch Groves
  • Boardman's Bridge
  • Candlewood Mountain
  • Candlewood Point
  • Candlewood Springs
  • Carlson's Grove
  • Church Hill
  • David Casey Copley Library
  • Gaylordsville Post Office
  • Harrybrooke Park
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  • Hickory Haven
  • Hine--Buckingham Farms
  • Housatonic Railroad Station
  • Hurds Corner
  • John Pettibone Community Center
  • Lover's Leap Bridge
  • Lovers Leap State Park
  • Lower Merryall
  • Lynn Deming Park
  • Merwinsville Hotel
  • New Milford Green
  • New Milford High School
  • New Milford Historical Society Museum
  • New Milford Hospital
  • New Milford Public Library
  • New Milford Town Hall
  • Park Lane
  • Pratt Nature Center
  • Roxbury Center Historic District
  • Schaghticoke Middle School
  • Sega Meadows Park
  • United Bank Building
  • Youngs Field

Streets and roads26

  • Webatuck Rd
  • Church Rd
  • Hill Rd
  • Hickory Ave
  • Hipp Rd
  • Easton Rd
  • Hine Rd
  • W Meetinghouse Rd
  • Crossmon Rd
  • Chapin Rd
  • Upland Rd
  • Candlewood Spgs
  • Boardman Rd
  • Bullymuck Rd
  • Park Ln
  • Wells Rd
  • Pleasant Vw
  • Birch Grove
  • Candlewood Cmn
  • Lea Rd
  • Still River Dr
  • Grove St
  • Danbury Rd
  • Farm Rd
  • Perry Dr
  • Morey Rd

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The art of mapping a place

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

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  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

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  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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