Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Milford, PA

Milford is a borough in Pike County and the county seat, perched on a ridge overlooking the Delaware River at the edge of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Milford was founded in 1796 by Judge John Biddis, one of Pennsylvania's first four circuit judges, who named the settlement after his ancestral home in Wales.

Milford was incorporated as a borough in 1874.

Milford had a population of 1,103 at the 2020 census, and Census survey estimates put the borough at roughly 600 households, many of them small or single-person.

Just outside the borough stands Grey Towers National Historic Site, the 1886 French château-style estate built by James Pinchot and the ancestral home of Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and a two-time governor of Pennsylvania.

Grey Towers is considered the birthplace of the American conservation movement; the estate was donated to the U.S. Forest Service in 1963, and President John F. Kennedy spoke there that year.

The Milford Historic District contains 655 buildings, about 400 of them deemed historically significant, an extraordinary concentration for a borough of barely 1,100 people.

In-town, Forester's Hall, designed with input from architects Calvert Vaux and Richard Morris Hunt, was built to house Pinchot's forestry work, and the Dimmick Inn has stood at Broad and Harford streets since 1828.

The Pinchot family, French immigrants who arrived in Milford in 1819, built stores, mills and churches and shaped the town's identity around forestry and conservation.

In 2021 Milford became the first Certified Local Government in Pike County and the only one in northeastern Pennsylvania, formalizing its preservation program.