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Line 66: |footnotes = }} '''Milford''' is a town in [[Decatur County, Indiana|Decatur County]], [[Indiana]], [[United States]].
==History== Milford was [[plat]]ted in 1835.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofdecatur01hard | title=History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions | publisher=B.F. Bowen | author=Harding, Lewis Albert | year=1915 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofdecatur01hard/page/116 116]}}</ref> It was named for the presence of a mill on a ford.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/219 219]|quote=...a mill built at a ford here.}}</ref> It was incorporated around 1888 but voted to disincorporate in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indiana town going out of business |publisher=IndyStar |url=http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070522/LOCAL/705220426 |date=2007-05-22 |accessdate=2007-05-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524030805/http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070522%2FLOCAL%2F705220426 |archivedate=2007-05-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Geography== | |||