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Midway is an
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rural community in
Washington County,
Oregon
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, United States.
It is located on
Oregon Route 219
Oregon Route 219 (also known as part of the Hillsboro-Silverton Highway No. 140 (see Oregon highways and routes)) is an Oregon state highway which runs between the cities of Hillsboro, Oregon, Hillsboro and Woodburn, Oregon, in the United States. ...
about west of
Scholls. The area is the halfway point between
Hillsboro to the north and
Sherwood
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to the southeast, thus it became known as Midway.
Midway has a large plant nursery business, a bar and grill and a rural fire station for
Washington County Fire District 2
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.
Midway's 1912 former one-room school
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house, closed in 1946, has been preserved as a private residence.[ Before being converted into a home, it served as a lodge for the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs.][ When the school closed, Midway School District merged with the Jacktown, Groner and Kinton school districts to form the Groner School District, which along with other small districts such as ]Farmington
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*Farmington, British Columbia
* Farmington, Nova Scotia (disambiguation)
United States
*Farmington, Arkansas
*Farmington, California
*Farmington, Connecticut
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View later merged into the Hillsboro School District
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.[
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Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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