Editing Milton, New Hampshire

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Milton, New Hampshire
| nickname                 = 
| motto                    = 
| image_skyline            = MiltonNH TownHouse.jpg
| image_seal               = Milton Town Seal.png
| imagesize                = 
| image_caption            = [[Milton Town House]]
| image_flag               = 
| image_map                = Strafford-Milton-NH.png
| mapsize                  = 250px
| map_caption              = Location in Strafford County, New Hampshire
| settlement_type          = Town
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| subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name         = United States
| subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[New Hampshire]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in New Hampshire|County]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Strafford County, New Hampshire|Strafford]]
| parts_type               = Communities
| parts                    = {{ubl|[[Milton (CDP), New Hampshire|Milton]]|[[Milton Mills, New Hampshire|Milton Mills]]|Laskey Corner}}
| government_type          = 
| leader_title             = [[Board of Selectmen]]
| leader_name              = {{ubl|Andrew Rawson, Chair|Matthew Morrill|Humphrey Williams}}
| leader_title1            = [[Town Administrator]]
| leader_name1             = Richard Krauss
| established_title        = [[Incorporation (municipal government)|Incorporated]]
| established_date         = 1802
| area_footnotes           = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021">{{cite web |title=2021 U.S. Gazetteer Files – New Hampshire |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2021_Gazetteer/2021_gaz_cousubs_33.txt |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=January 5, 2022}}</ref>
| area_total_km2           = 88.8
| area_total_sq_mi         = 
| area_land_km2            = 85.6
| area_land_sq_mi          = 
| area_water_km2           = 3.2
| area_water_sq_mi         = 
| area_water_percent       = 
| population_as_of         = 2020
| population_note          = 
| population_total         = 4482
| population_density_km2   = 52.4
| population_density_sq_mi = 
| timezone                 = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset               = -5
| timezone_DST             = [[Eastern Daylight Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset_DST           = -4
| coordinates              = {{coord|43|24|35|N|70|59|18|W|region:US-NH|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_m              = 
| elevation_ft             = 459
| website                  = {{URL|www.miltonnh-us.com}}
| postal_code_type         = [[ZIP code]]s
| postal_code              = 03851 (Milton)<br>03852 ([[Milton Mills, New Hampshire|Milton Mills]])
| area_code                = [[Area code 603|603]]
| blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info               = 33-48660
| blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info              = 0873668
| footnotes                = 
}}
'''Milton''' is a [[New England town|town]] in [[Strafford County, New Hampshire]], United States. The population was 4,482 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020">{{cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US3301748660| title=Census - Geography Profile: Milton town, Strafford County, New Hampshire| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=December 24, 2021}}</ref> A manufacturing, resort and residential town, Milton includes the village of [[Milton Mills, New Hampshire|Milton Mills]]. The primary village in town, where 593 people resided at the 2020 census,<ref name="Census 2020 CDP">{{cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US3348580| title=Census - Geography Profile: Milton CDP, New Hampshire| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=December 24, 2021}}</ref> is defined as the [[Milton (CDP), New Hampshire|Milton census-designated place]] (CDP), and is located along [[New Hampshire Route 125]] and the [[Salmon Falls River]], just north of [[New Hampshire Route 75|Route 75]].

==History==

[[Image:KEMACO 1.jpg|thumb|left|Kennebunk Manufacturing Company Fibre Lunch Box Catalog cover]]
Originally a part of [[Rochester, New Hampshire|Rochester]] variously called the "Northeast Parish", "Three Ponds" or "Milton Mills", the town was settled in 1760. It was set off and incorporated in 1802 as "Milton", the name either a contraction of "[[mill town]]", or else derived from a relative of the [[Benning Wentworth|Wentworth]] [[Thirteen Colonies|colonial]] governors—[[William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam|William Fitzwilliam]], [[Earl Fitzwilliam]] and [[Viscount Milton]]. The town of [[Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire|Fitzwilliam]] also bears his name.<ref>{{Cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ| page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ/page/n623 582]| quote=coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859.| first1=A. J.| last1=Coolidge| first2=J. B.| last2=Mansfield| title=A History and Description of New England| publisher=A.J. Coolidge| location=Boston, Massachusetts| year=1859}}</ref>

The high concentration of water-powered industries in Milton caused Ira W. Jones to found and operate an engineering firm from offices on Main Street in Milton. The company did business as [[I W Jones Eng'r.|I W Jones Engineers]].

In 1893 Jonas Spaulding opened a leatherboard mill in Milton, organizing the business as J. Spaulding and Sons. His sons were Leon C., Huntley N. and Rolland H., of whom [[Huntley N. Spaulding|Huntley]] and [[Rolland H. Spaulding|Rolland]] would serve as governors of [[New Hampshire]]. Jonas and his sons would undertake the construction of another leatherboard mill in [[North Rochester, New Hampshire|North Rochester]] around 1900. Jonas died before the North Rochester mill became operational. The brothers continued to run the business successfully and brought the Spaulding Brothers leatherboard mill in [[Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts]], under the J. Spaulding and Sons banner in 1902. They were successful with a machine to manufacture shoe counters and with experiments to make [[vulcanized fiber]]. In 1912 they opened a purpose-built facility to make vulcanized fiber in [[Tonawanda (city), New York|Tonawanda, New York]]. In 1913 J. Spaulding and Sons opened a second leatherboard mill in Milton. They also acquired the [[Kennebunk Manufacturing Company]] (KEMACO), which made lunch boxes and violin cases using leatherboard and vulcanized fiber and at one time had facilities in Milton as well.

The town contains some distinctive architecture, particularly the Milton Town House, built in 1808, and the Milton Free Public Library, a [[Second Empire (architecture)|Second Empire]] former schoolhouse built at Milton Mills in 1875.

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Image:School Building, Milton Mills, NH.jpg|Free Public Library {{circa|1910}}
Image:The Lake View House, Milton, NH.jpg|Lake View House {{circa|1915}}
Image:Street Scene, Milton, NH.jpg|Street scene {{circa|1910}}
Image:High School, Milton, NH.jpg|Nute High School in 1907
Image:Main Street, Milton, NH.jpg|Main Street {{circa|1910}}
</gallery>

==Geography==
The main [[Milton (CDP), New Hampshire|village of Milton]] is in the southern part of the town, along the west side of the Salmon Falls River at the outlet of [[Milton Pond]]. The village of [[Milton Mills, New Hampshire|Milton Mills]] is in the northern part of the town, {{convert|7|mi|0}} by road north of Milton village.

The [[Spaulding Turnpike]] ([[New Hampshire Route 16]]) runs north to south through Milton, with access from Exit 17 ([[New Hampshire Route 75]]) in the south, near Milton village, and from Exit 18 ([[New Hampshire Route 125]]) in the north, just south of the Wakefield town line.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|88.8|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|85.6|km2|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|3.2|sqkm|order=flip}} are water, comprising 3.57% of the town.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021"/> Milton is drained by the [[Salmon Falls River]], which forms the eastern boundary of the town and the New Hampshire–[[Maine]] state line. The town is part of the [[Piscataqua River]] watershed. Teneriffe Mountain is the highest point in Milton, with the summit reaching {{convert|1090|ft|m}} above [[sea level]].

===Adjacent municipalities===
* [[Wakefield, New Hampshire|Wakefield]] (north)
* [[Acton, Maine]] (northeast)
* [[Lebanon, Maine]] (east)
* [[Rochester, New Hampshire|Rochester]] (south)
* [[Farmington, New Hampshire|Farmington]] (southwest)
* [[Middleton, New Hampshire|Middleton]] (northwest)

==Demographics==

{{US Census population
|1810= 1005
|1820= 1232
|1830= 1273
|1840= 1322
|1850= 1629
|1860= 1862
|1870= 1598
|1880= 1516
|1890= 1640
|1900= 1625
|1910= 1542
|1920= 1428
|1930= 1206
|1940= 1279
|1950= 1510
|1960= 1418
|1970= 1859
|1980= 2438
|1990= 3691
|2000= 3910
|2010= 4598
|2020= 4482
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
}}
[[Image:The Camps, Milton, NH.jpg|thumb|left|"The Camps" in 1910]]
[[Image:Mill & Train, Milton, NH.jpg|thumb|right|Mill and train in 1888]]
As of the [[census]] of 2010, there were 4,598 people, 1,800 households, and 1,283 families residing in the town. There were 2,181 housing units, of which 381, or 17.5%, were vacant. 225 of the vacant units were for seasonal or recreational use. The racial makeup of the town was 97.4% [[White Americans|white]], 0.5% [[African American]], 0.2% [[Native Americans of the United States|Native American]], 0.2% [[Asia]]n, 0.02% [[Native Hawaiian]] or Pacific Islander, 0.2% some other race, and 1.5% from two or more races. 0.9% of the population were [[Hispanic]] or [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] of any race.<ref name="Census 2010 DP">{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/SF1DP1/0600000US3301748660| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (DP-1): Milton town, Strafford County, New Hampshire| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=November 9, 2017| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214000142/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/SF1DP1/0600000US3301748660| archive-date=February 14, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Of the 1,800 households, 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were headed by [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.7% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.8% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55, and the average family size was 2.93.<ref name="Census 2010 DP"/>

In the town, 22.9% of the population were under the age of 18, 7.3% were from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 33.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.9 males.<ref name="Census 2010 DP"/>

For the period 2011–2015, the estimated median annual income for a household was $60,000, and the median income for a family was $67,991. Male full-time workers had a median income of $55,324 versus $34,832 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $33,495. 8.8% of the population and 4.6% of families were below the poverty line. 8.5% of the population under the age of 18 and 3.6% of those 65 or older were living in poverty.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/DP03/0600000US3301748660| title=Selected Economic Characteristics: 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP03): Milton town, Strafford County, New Hampshire| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=November 9, 2017| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213154627/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/DP03/0600000US3301748660| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Sites of interest==

* [[New Hampshire Farm Museum]]
*The Milton Free Public Library (MFPL) in [[Milton Mills, New Hampshire|Milton Mills]] is housed in a building that was constructed in 1875 as a school house, and continued in this role until 1991, when its elementary grade students were bused daily down to Milton. It was the following year—1992—that MFPL relocated from smaller premises on Jug Hill Road to its current location. Before that the library was located at the current historical society, which was built in 1916 with the purpose of becoming a library. The land was donated by John E. Towsend, and did not become part of the town until September 26, 1921. The very first librarian that worked at this location was John Simes, and the first group of trustees were John E. Horne, Everett Fox, and Moses G. Chamberlain.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Harold|title=Milton Mills History}}</ref>

== Notable people ==
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* [[Louise Bogan]] (1897–1970), fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress (1945)<ref>[http://www.oocities.org/maryjsmith24502/louise_bogan_webpage.htm Louise Bogan Webpage] Retrieved August 26, 2018.</ref>
* [[Robert Edmond Jones]] (1887–1954), theatrical designer<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.farmingtonnhhistory.org/2011/09/upcoming-meeting-friday-october-7.html| title=Robert Edmond Jones - From Milton Farm Boy to Hollywood Producer| last1=Shea| first1=Kathleen| date=September 30, 2011| website=Farmington Historical Society| access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Alonzo Nute]] (1826–1892), US congressman<ref>{{CongBio|N000173|inline=y}}</ref>
* [[Richard Olney II]] (1871–1939), US congressman from [[Massachusetts]]
* [[Michael Stonebraker]] (born 1943), computer scientist<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/12/102635858-05-01-acc.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227091857/http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/12/102635858-05-01-acc.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |url-status=live| title=Oral History of Michael Stonebraker| date=August 23, 2007| access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
* {{Official website|www.miltonnh-us.com}}
* [https://www.miltonfreepubliclibrary.org/ Milton Free Public Library]
* [https://www.sau64.org/ Milton School District, SAU 64]
* [https://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/cp/profiles-htm/milton.htm New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile]
* [http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1163544 Milton Historical Society Museum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222217/http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1163544 |date=September 27, 2007 }}

{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Milton
 | North     = [[Wakefield, New Hampshire|Wakefield]]
 | Northeast = [[Acton, Maine]]
 | East      = [[Lebanon, Maine]]
 | Southeast = [[Lebanon, Maine]] 
 | South     = [[Rochester, New Hampshire|Rochester]]
 | Southwest = [[Farmington, New Hampshire|Farmington]]
 | West      = 
 | Northwest = [[Middleton, New Hampshire|Middleton]]
}}

{{Strafford County, New Hampshire}}

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