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Midway is a small city in Liberty County on Georgia's coast, part of the Hinesville-Fort Stewart metropolitan statistical area.

The modern city was not incorporated until 1925, but the Midway community dates to 1752, when settlers descended from English Puritans arrived from Dorchester, South Carolina.

The district was called Midway because the settlers' grant lay halfway between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers.

The settlers founded the Midway Congregational Church and Society in 1752, which became one of the most influential congregations in colonial Georgia.

The original Midway church building was burned by the British during the Revolutionary War, and the present church, built in 1792, still stands on U.S. Highway 17.

In a meeting at Midway Church, the district elected Dr. Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett to represent it in the Continental Congress, and both men went on to sign the Declaration of Independence for Georgia.

Midway Cemetery, across from the church, holds the graves of Revolutionary War officers, including five captains, three majors, three colonels, and two generals honored by the 50-foot Stewart-Screven Monument.

Dorchester Academy in Midway was founded after the Civil War as a school for freedpeople under the American Missionary Association, and by 1917 it was a fully accredited high school with about 300 students.

Dorchester Academy is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006; in the 20th century it served as a center for civil rights organizing and voter-registration drives.

The 2020 census counted 2,141 residents in Midway, almost unchanged from 2,121 in 2010.