'A Walk To Remember' Celebrates Former Milton High School

ALPHARETTA, GA -- The former Milton High School in Alpharetta will open its doors next weekend to give the community one last chance to take a trip down memory lane before the building is demolished.

A Walk to Remember will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, and current and former students, principals, faculty, staff and community members will come together to commemorate the building's history in a farewell celebration. The building will be torn down this winter to make way for the new North Fulton STEM high school.

Visitors can drop by any time during the four-hour event and visit areas inside and outside of the school. Yearbooks, pictures of former graduating classes and other Milton memorabilia will be on display, and there will be musical performances by alumni, former faculty and current students. Food trucks also will be on site, making this a fun time for the entire family. While the event is focused on celebrating the past, information about the new STEM high school will be available in the auditorium.

The original Milton High School on School Drive opened in 1921 with grades one through 11 to serve all students in what was then known as Milton County. In the 1950's, the opening of an elementary school scaled Milton High School back to grades 8-12, followed by a middle school in the 1980's, which gave Milton the traditional high school grade levels of 9-12. The school’s oldest surviving section was completed in 1956 and over the years there have been 17 contiguous additions.

In 2005, a replacement Milton High School opened on Birmingham Highway and the original building on School Drive was renamed Milton Center. It currently houses Independence High School, which is relocating to classrooms on the Teaching Museum North campus.

The new North Fulton STEM high school is set to begin construction on the old Milton campus beginning this summer. Set to open in Fall 2020, the school will have college and career-focused curriculum pathways in a 244,000-square-foot school offering programs in Healthcare Science, Engineering, and Information Technology. A similar STEM campus is planned for South Fulton in 2021.

Milton Center is at 86 School Drive.

Image via Fulton County School System