Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Milford, a village in Geary county, is located in the township of the same name on the Republican river and the Union Pacific R. R., 12 miles north of Junction City, the county seat. It has a bank, a grain elevator, 2 flour mills, all lines of mercantile business, a telegraph office, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 250. The town was laid out in 1855 under the name of Bachelder. The postoffice was established in 1861 and the first postmaster was Major Barry.

Page 280 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.