What is the history of Midway, Georgia?
Midway has a long and distinguished history dating back as far as the 1700’s. English Puritans founded the Midway Society on August 28, 1754 in a log meeting house on Midway Neck. The Midway Society was a strongly religious Congregational churchCongregationalist group. These Puritans migrated to St. John’s Parish, Georgia from Dorchster, South Carolina in 1752 and established new Dorchester and another nearby settlement what was later to become the Midway Community. In 1752 the Council of Georgia granted the settlers 31,950 acres primarily because colonial officials wanted a large number of settlers there to protect them from the Creek Indians. The original settlers were primarily rice planters and the Midway settlers developed a strong agricultural economy. The settlers in the area took an early stand for independence. In May of 1775, Lyman Hall (a Midway Church member) was sent to the Continental Congress as a delegate from the parish of St. John. A year later Hall and St. John’s Par
