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Let your community know "What places in Milford Matter
to you!"
•
Please download a sign
here
or create your
own "This Place Matters" sign.
• Choose a location in Milford that matters to you, take
a picture with the sign, and share why Milford Matters to you!
• Send your photo and description to
Elizabeth@downtownmilford.org.
Please join us in celebrating the places that make
Milford special.
“This Place Matters” photos will be displayed on our
Facebook and
Flick R page, in a rotating exhibit in Downtown Milford, as
well as in the Milford Chronicle throughout the year. What places make
Milford…Milford? Pull out those cameras and show the rest of our
community that “This Place Matters.” For more information, please call DMI at (302) 839-1180.
Downtown Milford, Inc.’s “This Place Matters”
is part of an
initiative by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help raise
awareness about the special places that help to define our national
heritage.
Local Physician and DMI board member Mitch Edmondson
stated that the Milford version of “This Place Matters” has an
historical precedent. “When we started planning this project, several
members recalled that many historical photographs in the collection of
the Milford Historical Society featured a Milford resident who posed in
his own pictures. This discussion led us to local historian David
Kenton, who was able to confirm the identity of this photographer, Mr.
Andrew Komoroski. Mr. Komoroski was a Polish immigrant, whose family
arrived in Milford in 1895. He became the most prolific photographer of
Milford scenes between 1910 and 1935. Mr. Kenton and the Milford
Historical Society provided us with digital versions of many of Mr.
Komoroski’s photographs. We are enlarging them and giving them their own
prominent display, right beside our contemporary photographs. We hope to
inspire our own Andrew Komoroskis of the twenty-first Century!”
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