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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

MILFORD.

   On the tenth day of May, 1856, Robert J. Scott located, for farming purposes,
a section of land about twenty-five miles south-east of Susanville. On a portion
of this, one and one-half miles from the west shore of Honey lake, and on the
stage road to Reno, lies the town of Milford. Scott built a shanty of logs and
brush, inclosed five or six acres of his land with a brush fence, and raised a
small crop. He diverted for irrigating purposes the water of Mill creek, a
stream that flows from the mountains skirting the lake on the west, and
discharges into Honey lake. About a year later Scott sold his claim to Peter
Lassen, who proceeded to build a log house, but abandoned it before completion.
It was near the site of Fairchild's saw-mill, about 400 yards west of town. In
1859 Frederick Washburn and Thomas Fairchilds bought the property from the
administrators of Lassen's estate, and in 1860 built the water-power saw-mill
above alluded to, now owned by the widow of Mr. Fairchilds. In 1861 Judson Dakin
and Joseph C. Wemple built a grist-mill, now in the center of the town, which
has been operated by the water of Mill creek ever since. It is a two-story,
frame structure, and is now owned by Mr. H. H. Dakin.

   The first residence in Milford was the log house which Lassen had commenced,
and which Washburn and Fairchilds completed. In 1862 H. C. Wilkins built a store
on the ground now occupied by H. H. Dakin's residence. In 1864 W-Adams opened a
saloon, and in the fall of the same year E. T. Fairchild built adjoining it a
two-story, frame hotel. These form a portion of the property of L. P. Whiting,
in which H. E. McClelland now resides. The school-house was erected in 1865, and
Miss F. Montgomery, now Mrs. E. V. Spencer, first presided at its desk. Washburn
Brothers built the present blacksmith shop in 1864, and in 1870 completed the
hotel now managed by S. A. Doyle. The name Milford was bestowed upon the
settlement in 1862, at the suggestion of J. C. Wemple, on account of the mills
which composed the business and industry of the place. The town now contains a
saw-mill, grist-mill, hotel, store, blacksmith shop, butcher shop, post-office,
school-house, and some fifteen dwelling-houses.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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