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Midway is a city in Liberty County, Georgia, United States. It is a part of the Hinesville-Fort Stewart metropolitan statistical area. Midway is situated near Savannah, Brunswick, St. Simons Island, and Jekyll Island. The population was 1,100 as of the 2000 census. Midway has several museums, including the Midway Museum and Cemetery and the Dorchester Academy Museum. Midway is surrounded by wetlands. There are also two islands, Colonel's Island and Dolphin Island. ==History== Midway's history dates back to the 18th century. Puritans migrated to St. John's Parish, Georgia from Dorchester, South Carolina in 1752 and established several settlements including what was later to become the Midway community. In 1752 the Council of Georgia granted the settlers , as colonial officials wanted a large number of settlers in the area to protect them from the Creek Indians. The original settlers were primarily rice planters and the Midway settlers developed a strong agricultural economy aided by the 1,500 slaves they brought from South Carolina.〔Stokes, Thomas, ''The Savannah'', Rinehart & Co., 1951, p. 124〕 The settlers in the area took an early stand for independence. In May 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 Parish resident Button Gwinnett (along with George Walton of Augusta) signed the Declaration of Independence. Another Midway resident, Nathan Brownson, served in the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778, but did not sign the Declaration. In 1777 St. John's Parish, St. Andrew's Parish, and St. James' Parish combined to become Liberty County. Established in 1752, the Midway Congregational Church building was destroyed during the American Revolutionary War by the British, but it was rebuilt. The present building was completed in 1792. The religious welfare of the slaves was given consideration and the "colored" members of the church, with the blacks in the galleries and the whites in the pews below. Every April, the Midway Society conducts an annual service commemorating the town's settlement. The Church and the adjacent cemetery were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Among those buried here are two American Generals who served in the Revolutionary War, Daniel Stewart and James Screven. A large monument, erected in 1915 in the center of the cemetery, is dedicated to these men. in 1973, the Midway Historic District, encompassing the Midway Congregational Church and Cemetery, the Midway Museum and the Old Sunbury Road, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.〔(National Park Service: Midway Historic District )〕 The City of Midway was Incorporated in 1925. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Midway, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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