History & local legend
The Harford-Smith House on East Harford Street is associated with Robert Harford, who is credited with building it around 1740. Later additions conceal much of the older structure, regarded as Milford’s oldest house. Its basement and tunnels attracted both historical curiosity and stories of an unseen presence.
In an October 2005 interview with Connections magazine, Lenore Fasula described visiting the house with a group that included Lori Strelecki, curator of the Pike County Historical Society’s museum. They were investigating the basement passages and the stories attached to them.
Stories told about the cellar stairs described people feeling an unexplained push while using them.
Sources
- Connections magazine, The Hauntings of Milford, October 2005, printed page 9, interview with Lenore Fasula
- Pike County Comprehensive Plan, historic inventory identifying the Harford-Smith House, 201 East Harford Street, as Milford’s oldest house
- Society of Architectural Historians, Downtown Milford, frame structure at 201 East Harford and nineteenth-century additions
- Allison Mowatt, “Do You Love the Chills?”, Connections, February 2012, printed page 7
