Milford Mills, Pennsylvania

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Milford Mills was a village in the Marsh Creek Valley of Chester County, Pennsylvania that was inundated by the construction of the Marsh Creek Dam in 1972.

Milford Mills was one of a cluster of small farming villages in Upper Uwchlan Township settled in the first quarter of the 18th century by Welsh, Scots-Irish and English. Like nearby Lyndell and Dorlan, Milford Mills grew as farming and small-scale water-powered industries, including paper, grain and textile manufacturing, flourished through the mid 19th Century. Bypassed by large-scale urban industry in the late 19th Century, small-scale agriculture remained dominant until Pennsylvania Turnpike construction and suburbanization arrived after World War II.

In 1970-1972, residents were displaced and the village razed after the Marsh Creek Dam was completed. Today, the village site lies beneath the 530 acre Marsh Creek Lake: part of a drinking water and flood control project operated by the Chester County Water Resources Authority and the State of Pennsylvania.

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