Editing Midway, Alabama (section)

==Old Merritt School==
[[Image:Merritt Rosenwald School Midway Alabama.JPG|150px|thumb|left|Merritt School]]
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 School|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]]. The building was enlarged twice then renovated in 1978. It is now used as a [[community center]]. It was added to the [[Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage by county (Autauga–Choctaw)#Bullock County|Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage]] on November 2, 1990, and the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Alabama#Bullock County|National Register of Historic Places]] on February 20, 1998.<ref name="Old Merritt School, Midway Community Center ">{{Citation|title=Small Town Historic Markers |publisher=Alabama Tourism Department |url=http://www.alabama.travel/homecoming/ |accessdate=April 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231154937/http://www.alabama.travel/homecoming/ |archivedate=December 31, 2010 }}</ref>

The school is located in Bullock County. Bullock has the highest illiteracy rate of any county in Alabama.