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Midway is a town in eastern Bullock County, Alabama, on U.S. Route 82, the Jefferson Davis Highway, 13 miles east of Union Springs, the county seat.

A post office existed in the area by 1838 and it was already called Midway; its earliest settler was likely Samuel Feagin, a land broker who served as the first postmaster.

James Madison Feagin organized a local militia company, the Midway Guards, during the Second Creek War of 1836-37.

Midway originally lay in Barbour County and became part of Bullock County when that county was created in 1866.

The town was incorporated in 1870, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama.

By 1855, Midway already supported four physicians, three churches, and a school.

The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad came through in the early 1870s; much of the business district burned in the mid-1870s and was rebuilt by 1878.

The 2020 census counted 421 residents in Midway, down from 499 in 2010; the town's population peaked at 710 in 1930.

Midway is a predominantly Black community: about 94 percent of its residents identified as Black or African American in the 2020 census.

The town's Merritt School, built in 1922 with matching Rosenwald Fund money as the Midway Colored Public School, is one of the few surviving Rosenwald schools in America; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 and now serves as a community center.