 Margaret Elizabeth Merritt of Midway sold two acres for $5 to the State of Alabama in 1921 as a site for an elementary school for African-American children.Built in 1922 with matching Rosenwald funds, the Midway Colored Public School featured oak and pine construction and two classrooms divided by a partition.The building is one of the few surviving of the more than 5,000 rural black schools built with contributions for the Julius Rosenwald Fund.