Bill McDonald, a Milford resident and local writer, has just completed a book about one of the big names in Milford history, Peter Pond.
Peter Pond (1740-1807) was born and died in Milford, Ct., but gained immortality as an adventurer, explorer and fur trader amidst colorful voyageurs and flimsy birchbark canoes in the wilds of Canada. As early as 1778 he had set up a trading post on the Athabasca River hundreds of miles due north of present-day Montana, further west than any white man of his time.
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