Milton Historic District

Milton lies on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, eleven miles north of Northumberland, with its main commercial street of Front Street running parallel to the river. Founded in the 1790s as two separate towns, Lower Milton laid out by Andrew Straub and Upper Milton by Joseph Black, it grew after the canal arrived in 1830 and railroads reached it in the 1850s. A fire in 1880 destroyed 665 buildings, and the rebuilding that followed produced the district's main architectural character. The district holds a notable concentration of Queen Anne houses, including the patterned-masonry Charles Godcharles house at 101 North Front Street, along with Italianate and Neo-Classical commercial blocks, Colonial Revival houses and an Art Deco post office. Its collection of late Victorian and early 20th century buildings is regarded as the best of its kind in the lower West Branch Valley.