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Milford, Connecticut
Milford is a city on Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, at the mouth of the Wepawaug River. It was founded in 1639 by English Puritans led by Peter Prudden and joined the New Haven Colony in 1643. It later developed as a shipbuilding and oyster-fishing town.
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