Midway University is a private Christian university in Midway, Kentucky, United States. Related by covenant to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), it enrolls approximately 2,000 students earning associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Midway began as an orphan school for female students in 1847 and over the decades evolved from a high school, to a junior college, and then a four-year women's college, the only one in Kentucky.
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Midway is a home rule-class city in Woodford County, Kentucky, in the United States. Its population was 1,741 at the time of the year 2020 U.S. census. It is part of the Lexington-Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The town sits just off Interstate 64 and among several major thoroughbred breeding operations, such as Three Chimneys Farm and former Gov. Brereton Jones’ Airdrie Stud. In 2003, faced with a declining downtown, the city began major streetscape renovation project as part of Main Street Kentucky. New period structures and lighting brought new life to the town. It is known for its distinctive shops and restaurants. An active business association holds events every month of the year, and the city is a starting point or waypoint for several road races that wind through the surrounding countryside.
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Nugent Crossroads is an unincorporated community in Woodford County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
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Weisenberger Mills is the oldest continuously operating grain mill in Kentucky. Located about 3 miles east of Midway, Kentucky, the property straddles Scott and Woodford counties, and the mill is located on the banks of South Elkhorn Creek with a milldam which provides the water to power the mill.
Augustus Weisenberger purchased the property with mill in 1865. The current mill building was built in 1913 to replace the old 1818 stone one. The complex includes a 20-foot wheelhouse and a 1904 20,000 bushel ironclad grain elevator.
The mill property and related buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, including 14 contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 87 acres.
As of 2023, the water-powered mill has been operated as a family business since the 1860s by six generations of Weisenbergers. The mill produces flour, meal, feed and baking mixes which are shipped throughout the country. All of their grains are sourced locally, within 100 miles.
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Three Chimneys Farm is an American Thoroughbred race horse breeding farm in Midway, Kentucky, established in 1972 by Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Clay. Three Chimneys has been home to a number of famous horses including U.S. Triple Crown champion Seattle Slew, U.S. Filly Triple Crown champion Chris Evert, as well as Silver Charm, Chief's Crown, Genuine Risk, Point Given, Slew o' Gold, Capote, Smarty Jones, and Big Brown.
In 2012, the Three Chimneys stallion roster includes Rahy, Point Given, Yes It's True, Flower Alley, Good Reward, Sky Mesa, War Chant, and Big Brown. Flower Alley sired the 2012 Kentucky Derby Winner and Preakness Stakes winner, I'll Have Another.
In April 2008, The Kentucky region of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Three Chimneys Farm teamed up to grant a young boy's wish of meeting Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Smarty Jones. His experience was chronicled June 30 during SportsCenter's "My Wish" series on ESPN. Nine-year-old Patrick Munro of Greenlawn, N.Y. is one of five kids from the Make-A-Wish Foundation whose sports-related wish was highlighted on the SportsCenter series. Patrick, who suffers from hydrocephalus and, as a result, is blind and hearing impaired, spent several days in Central Kentucky in April. On the first day of his visit, Munro and his family were invited to Three Chimneys Farm to fulfill the boy's wish to meet Smarty Jones.
In 2024, Lexington equestrian Tony Cissell assumed the position of the Farm's general manager and Chief operating officer after Chris Baker's resignation.
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The Big Sink Rural Historic District, in Woodford County, Kentucky near Versailles, Kentucky, is a 5,000 acres historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included Number of 180 contributing buildings, 33 contributing structures, and 44 contributing sites.
It is located west of Midway off Interstate 64.
"The Big Sink Rural Historic District is located in northwest Woodford County, within the Inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The District contains the buildings, structures, sites and landscapes that are the physical evidence of historic events, lands use patterns, and associations of a rural agricultural community from c. 1775 through 1943 with significance on a national level. The majority of acres within the District include land that has been devoted to a variety of farming
activities for over 200 years."
It includes Airdrie, an estate including 650 acres of an original 2,000 acre area purchased by Robert Alexander in 1790. Airdrie includes 19 contributing buildings, including a c.1903 house, the W.E. Simms residence, built by R.W. Lacefield & Sons of Midway, which is "an impressive Colonial Revival mansion". It includes tenant houses, other buildings supporting the main house, and agricultural buildings, as well as a c.1917 landscape designed by landscape architect Jens Jensen. Its stone entry gates on the south side of the Old Frankfort Pike, are a contributing structure.
It includes Woodburn, a two-room school.
The college became a university in July 2015 and in the fall of 2016 became fully coeducational.