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masking sixty four sq. miles, New Milford is the biggest municipality in Connecticut and the southernmost city in Litchfield County. Earliest citizens settled round the present-day Village eco-friendly, making it the epicenter of city. within the early 1900s, an outstanding hearth obliterated a significant portion of the downtown structures, yet companies have been quick resurrected. institutions comparable to the Robertson Bleachery, jap living room, and New Milford Foundry & computer helped the city upward push from the ashes. the twentieth century additionally observed the death of the tobacco that had ruled the world for many years, as numerous companies, more often than not situated within the West highway quarter, rose to prominence. In later years, Kimberly-Clark company, Maggi corporation (which could merge with Nestl�), Scovill production, Century Brass, and New Milford medical institution all thrived because the city prospered. New Milford�s iconic bandstand has been the scene of various live shows, together with one in 1960 carried out via longtime resident Maestro Leopold Stokowski, and the constitution has graced the canopy of the Saturday night put up. it really is no shock that Fredric March, Vladimir Horowitz, Joan Rivers, Diane von Furstenberg, Eartha Kitt, and Ruth and Skitch Henderson have all selected New Milford as home.

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