Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Midway, KY

Midway is a home rule-class city in northern Woodford County, Kentucky, in the heart of the Bluegrass region, just off Interstate 64 between Lexington and Frankfort.

Midway began as the small settlement of Stevenson's, which received its first post office in 1832.

On January 31, 1835, farmer John Francisco sold his roughly 216-acre farm to the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, which used the land to lay out Kentucky's first railroad town.

The railroad named the new town Middleway for its location midway between Lexington and Frankfort (it is also equidistant between Versailles and Georgetown), and the name was shortened to Midway in 1837.

Midway was incorporated on February 7, 1846, and its major streets were named in honor of the railroad's original officials.

Trains still run down the middle of town on the original railroad line along Railroad Street, passing directly in front of Midway's downtown shops and restaurants.

Much of downtown Midway is protected as the Midway Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Bourbon was distilled in Midway for nearly a century, from 1865 to 1959; an August 1908 distillery warehouse fire destroyed more than 47,000 barrels of whiskey and set Lee's Branch creek ablaze for over a mile, earning neighboring Martin Street the nickname 'Tin Cup Alley.'

Midway University, founded in 1847 as the Kentucky Female Orphan School, is a private university in the city that admitted only women until it went coeducational in 2016.

The 2020 census counted 1,718 residents in Midway, living in 640 households.