{"nrhp_refnum":"73000625","name":"Midway Historic District","other_names":["Midway Church and Cemetery","Midway Museum","Old Sunbury Road"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. U.S. 17 and GA 38","address_restricted":false,"city":"Midway","county":"Liberty County","state":"GA","lat":31.806328034000046,"lon":-81.43078630309749,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 20-acre historic district at the junction of US Highway 17 and Georgia Highway 38 in Midway, Liberty County, Georgia. It includes Midway Church (1792), Midway Cemetery (laid out c.1756), a segment of the Old Sunbury Road, and the state-owned Midway Museum (1959).","why_significant":"Midway was for over a century an influential political, economic and religious center near the Georgia coast, and its settlers produced notable figures, including two Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence. The church is a typical 18th-century Protestant meeting house, and the cemetery holds early settlers and Revolutionary figures. The museum was included because it interprets the area and no 18th-century residences survive nearby.","narrative":"Midway Historic District is a small cluster of resources at the crossing of US Highway 17 and Georgia Highway 38 in Liberty County. It includes Midway Church, completed in 1792 on the site of an earlier meeting house burned by the British in 1778, and a cemetery laid out about 1756 and enclosed by a brick wall. A live-oak-lined stretch of the Old Sunbury Road and the Midway Museum, built in 1959 from research on colonial low-country cottages, complete the district. Settlers from Dorchester, South Carolina, organized the Midway Society in 1754, and the community grew wealthy on rice and indigo. Residents were active advocates of independence, and the area produced Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett, two Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Civil War left the community unable to recover, and little of it remains beyond these resources. The district was recognized for its religious, political and architectural importance and as the symbolic center of a nearly vanished community.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Thomas G. Little (architect of Midway Museum)","architectural_style":"Protestant meeting house resembling a New England meeting house; museum designed as an 18th-century Georgia low-country raised cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; the church was moved 40 feet in 1956 for road widening, and regular services are no longer held. The museum serves as a visitor center.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.452645-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/73000625.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000625/955849197d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000625/955849197d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Midway_Church03.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_Midway_Church03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208799","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Historic_District_(Midway,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6843289"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/liberty-county/midway-historic-district-73000625/"}