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Coming from the west along the Connecticut shoreline, you’ll come to a long sandbar terminating at Charles Island. A red #16 flashing red bell buoy points out the end of the by John Galluzzo shoals extending off the island. Keep it to port and enter the body of water known as “The Gulf.” oute 95 passes straight through Milford, the connecting Coming at it from the east, you’ll spy roadway between New York and Boston, but to a red #2 buoy that will clear you of Welches Point. From either angle, look residents of the town, that’s no big deal. Long before toward the north for a red #4 buoy and the interstate highway system was developed, the the beginning of the channel that will bring you into Milford Harbor. Fort Boston Post Road served the same purpose. Trumbull Beach, off the port bow, and Gulf Beach, to starboard, will close in As such, Milford played an important role in the on you as you head for the jetties at the narrow entrance. development of New England, even prior to the American Head upriver for Milford Landing, near the head of the Revolution, and therefore the development of the United harbor. The marina, which caters specifically to transients, States. In the early days, the longest coastline of any is easily discernible, a big brick headquarters building Connecticut town boasted any number of important marine patriotically flying an American flag. industries; today, it hosts six beaches and the lingering, Back to that buried treasure ... fascinating rumor that Captain Kidd buried some of his A tombolo stretching from Silver Sands allows walking treasure just outside of the harbor. access at low tide to Charles Island, the suspected X-marked To find Milford, and possibly that treasure, find the mouth spot. But if your digging turns up nothing, no worries. The of the Wepawaug River. The Wepawaug rests between the annual oyster festival is one of the best in the country, the majestic Connecticut River to the east and the Housatonic arts community is unequaled, and the town green is the River to the west, two of New England’s most storied second-longest of its type in the entirety of the six-state waterways. The Wepawaug’s mouth is north of Long Island’s New England region--just perfect for meandering while Port Jefferson and marks the entrance to Milford Harbor, pondering the next strategy to find that treasure. really just the lower reaches of the river.
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