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 was playing and releasing music and then the Ozark Highballers out Fayetteville, Arkansas started playing in 2014 with some of the best old time harmonica playing you'll ever hear. Back to 'highball' and 'Burnt Mills' though; the art on the top of our website here was drawn by local artist Ethan Stuart and it's of a 1877 trainwreck, "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. There had been very heavy rains, which converted the Quequacommissicong creek into a mighty, raging torrent. The wild, rushing stream undermined and washed away a part of the stone culvert, at the creekâs mouth, over which the 'Oswego and Philadelphia Express' had to pass. When the train reached this point, the locomotive No. 142, plunged into the abyss, with the baggage and two passenger coaches following." In conclusion we are a firey trainwreck!
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