Milford High School’s history contains many mysteries; for instance, many students wonder what the nook located next to the little theater was used for. Originally, it housed a payphone for students to use before the development of cell phones. The long, lost history at Milford High School is unknown by nearly everyone in the building, and the MHS of today vastly differs from the original high school; in fact, the original high school was located in today’s downtown Milford. Some of the old school’s cement stairways are still there today! Next time you’re walking downtown, you can see a few remnants of the school behind the Flat Iron building.
After the building was torn down, the students were moved into the current MHS facility.
The entire layout of the school we know today has changed, including the locations of the library and main office.
Before many current students were born, the school was completely different in 1994. Some may wonder why Math Teacher Scott Riggs’s room is so much different compared to other rooms in MHS. This is because his room was originally the Media Center.
Many students may have noticed the covered up windows in the small gym.
These widows once were the opening to a press box. Yes, you could actually watch a basketball game from the heights of the top of the small gym!
“Playing in the little gym was great,” said Adrianne Hincka, a current Math Teacher and MHS grad. “It always looked like a packed crowd!”
While Hincka attended MHS, the school mascot was not the Mavericks; the teams were actually known as the Redskins. The name was changed in 2003 and from then on a Maverick was the symbol of Milford pride.
English Teacher Meghan Weeks, a Milford High School graduate, was in the building during the mid 90s and said that many things have changed. Weeks was involved in both drama and choir, so she spent a lot of time in the Little Theater, which was known as just the theater before the Center for Performing Arts was built. She remembers that the senior wall was torn down while she was attending. The senior wall was a wall that graduating seniors would sign as a legacy mark on their school. It was torn down to increase the size of the student parking lot.
Before Weeks was here in the 90s, there were even greater changes. At one time, there were smoking areas for students and relaxing couches in the Commons!
“It’s kind of funny how times have changed,” Senior Avery Friedman said. “[Students] actually used to be able to smoke here.”
The current Broadcasting room was once the main office.
And for all the Underclassmen who are not sure whether to believe if there really is a “basement” or not, it’s true!
The tunnels stretch the entire length of the school and as our school grew, so did the tunnels beneath it. They are, in fact, still used today by any of the people who are in charge of the facility. The tunnels are the way that plumbers and electricians access the areas of our school that need to be fixed. There are many hidden ways to access the tunnels, none of which are used today because they are not safe. But there are trap doors here at MHS. Many people are unaware that the field right next to Milford was originally planned to be the middle school, but the construction never took take place and we continued to use Highland Middle and Muir Middle.
”A lot of people don’t realize how far back Milford history goes,” said Dean of Students Ed Collins.
