Where our name comes from?

Milford, NJ used to be called Burnt Mills after a large fire in 1769. While "highball" comes from the old-fashioned train signal meaning full speed, originating from raising a ball to the top of a mast.

In the 1920s the Blue Ridge Highballers out of Danville, Virginia were playing and recording music, and then the Ozark Highballers out of Fayetteville, Arkansas began in 2014 with some of the best old-time harmonica you’ll ever hear.

The artwork at the top of our website was drawn by local artist Ethan Stuart. It depicts the 1877 trainwreck described like this:

"One of the greatest disasters in the history of the local division of the Pennsylvania Railroad occurred here on the evening of October 4, 1877. Heavy rains turned the Quequacommissicong creek into a raging torrent. The rushing stream undermined and washed away a section of the stone culvert over which the Oswego and Philadelphia Express had to pass. When the train reached this point, the locomotive No. 142 plunged into the abyss, followed by the baggage and two passenger coaches."

In conclusion, we are a fiery trainwreck.