Minden High School is the public secondary educational institution in Minden, a small city of 13,000 and the seat of Webster Parish located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. MHS houses grades nine through twelve but originally handled grades one through eleven prior to the establishment of the twelfth grade. The school is under the supervision of the elected Webster Parish School Board.School historyMinden was founded in 1837 by Charles H. Veeder, a New York State native who shaped the community into that of a parallelogram and divided the area into lots. He named the settlement after the home of his ancestors in Germany. Minden thereafter became the largest town in old Claiborne Parish, a part of which was separated to be included in the newer Webster Parish, named for Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster.In 1838, Minden received one of the first charters for a public school from the Louisiana State Legislature. Though the school charged tuition, it was open to all white children. Hence known as the "Minden Academy", the school later split into the Minden Male Academy, with later state court Judges John D. Watkins and A. B. George for a time as principal, and the Minden Female College, both of which operated into the late 1890s. The current Minden High School is located on College Street on the site of Veeder's original Minden Academy.
