Midway Historic District (Midway, Kentucky)
Midway Historic District is a listed area in Midway, Kentucky, who was taken as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1978. Since the center of Midway was in decline, 2003 was part of the 2003 was made as part of the Kentucky Main Street Program, a major renovation of the road design.
Midway was the first city, which was built in Kentucky by a railway company. The Lexington and Ohio Railroad (L & O) pursued the goal of Lexington to connect with the Ohio River and to bypass Louisville. The railway company built in 1831 on a route between Frankfort (Kentucky) and Lexington. The first train reached the midpoint of the segment (English midway) in 1833 on the site of a farm that was owned by a John Francisco. On 31 January 1835, the railroad bought the farm Francisco for the price of 6491.25 U.S. dollars ( in today's prices: 184,000 U.S. dollars) and had by her civil RC Hewitt plan the city. The place was called Midway because it was about halfway between Frankfort and Lexington. Many of the streets were named after people who have worked for L & O.
Description of the district
The Midway Historic District includes parts of winter, Main, Railroad, Wassau, Bruen, Cross, Higgins, Stephen Parrish, Walnut, Johnson, Dudley, Turner, Starks, Church, Gratz, Smith and Brand Street and U.S. Highway 62 Parrish Hill Farm and the Midway College, the most contributing properties are, however, of winter, Railroad and Main Street. Overall, at the time were the nomination to the National Register in April 1978 in the historic district of 242 buildings, many of whom were seen as contributing due to insufficient age or major changes 66.
The significance of the Midway Historic District is justified by its composition, since the houses have retained their character of the 19th and early 20th century. Most buildings were constructed 1840s to 1870s, and to a lesser extent in the 1890s. The street scene has changed little since then.
Although the railway is now equipped with more modern technology, the route is still used by the city on its original route. She shares the business district along Railroad Street in two parts.
The local tradition after the porterhouse steak to have been invented in Midway, in the remaining Porterhouse, but there are a number of other theories about the origin of the term.
A museum shop is located today in the two-story building in 124 E. Railroad Street in the Italianate style, which was probably built about 1880 to 1882 by Henry Russell Baxter as the saloon. It was purchased in 1915 by the African-American Association of Sons and Daughters of relief, which then operated a bar with a restaurant and used the second floor as a meeting room.
The Second Christian Church is the oldest black community of Kentucky.