Midway Historic District - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

The Midway Historic District includes the following:

Midway Church

Historic sign gives this information:
"Meeting house burned by British in 1778. Sherman’s cavalry camped here in 1864. Midway settlement produced many of Georgia’s most famous men."

Plaque on the church reads:
"Midway Congregational Church

Erected 1792

Organized 1754 by descendents of an English Colony which came first to Massachusetts 1630 to Connecticut 1635 to South Carolina 1695 and to Georgia 1752

Built on the same spot as the church which was burned by the British in 1778

This church has given to her country eighty-six ministers of the Gospel and seven foreign missionaries

Midway in St. John’s Parish, now Liberty County, was the cradle of revolutionary spirit in Georgia and two of her sons were signers of the Declaration of Independence

Placed by the Brunswick Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and descendants of the Midway Colony 1928"

Midway Cemetery

This cemetery dates from the Revolutionary War era and contains the grave of Rev. John Osgood.

Midway Colonial Museum

The historical marker reads:
"Established by South Carolina Calvinists of English and Scottish extraction in 1752, the small settlement of Midway became "the cradle of Revolutionary spirit in Georgia". Two of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence, Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett, were sons of Midway, as were four Revolutionary Governors of the young state.

Exhibits, documents and furnishings housed in the Midway Museum commemorate and reanimate the love of liberty which distinguished the Midway Society from the Colonial period through its last meeting in December 1865.

Built in 1957, the Museum is owned and administered by the Midway Museum, Inc., organized by the Saint John's Parish Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists and by the Liberty County Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy.

National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
Georgia State Society 1990"

Old Sunbury Road

Historical Marker reads:
“The highway entering here is the Sunbury Road which once served as an arterial vehicular route from the interior of Georgia to the Town of Sunbury, a former leading port and educational center, located 11 miles to the eastward on the Midway River. The stretch from this area to Sunbury was opened about 1760. In the early 1790’s the thoroughfare was extended to Greensboro via Swainsboro and Sparta. The old way was noted for its elevated course and few stream crossings. The route declined in importance when Sunbury lost commercial significance.

089-8 Georgia Historical Commission 1956”

Historical Markers for Button Gwinnet, Nathan Brownson, Dr. Lyman Hall, and the Savannah-New Inverness Road are also in this district.

Street address: Jct US-17 and GA 38 Midway, GA USA County / Borough / Parish: Liberty Year listed: 1973 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Hub of Revolutionary War activity in Georgia Periods of significance: 1750-1800 Historic function: Funerary, Religion Current function: Recreation and Culture/Museum Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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