Pike County Press (Milford, Pa.)
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503 issues from 1895 to 1910, published in Milford, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
Zebulon Pike, the explorer who named Pike’s Peak, died on April 27, 1813, a casualty of the War of 1812. The new Pennsylvania county formed 11 months later, on March 26, 1814, was named in his honor. Located in the far northeastern corner of the state, Pike County encompasses picturesque terrain rising from the Delaware River valley in the east into the foothills of the Pocono Mountains in the west. Originally inhabited by Lenni Lenape Indians, Pike had white settlers by 1725. Disparate famous names associated with the county include Thomas Quick, Jr., a notorious Indian killer, and Gifford Pinchot, twice Pennsylvania governor. Quick, who murdered 99 Indians in 40 years and on his deathbed begged for one more to be dragged in so he could reach 100, was born in Pike County. Grey Towers, an 1886 mansion located in the county seat of Milford, was the site of the Pinchot family estate– the summer residence of the Governor and Mrs. Pinchot.
The settlement that later became known as Milford, situated on the Delaware River, dates to 1733, when Thomas Quick, Sr., arrived in the area. In 1796, John Biddis of Germantown, Philadelphia, bought a huge land tract and brought his family, escaping the city’s yellow fever epidemic. Biddis laid out the town of Milford, thought to be named after Milford Haven, his father’s hometown in Wales. The legislative act creating the county stated that Milford could be the county seat if its people contributed at least $1,500 toward constructing…
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