Midway/Canaan City was a migrant settlement established for blacks during the celery boom of the 1920’s, although a few blacks lived in the area as early as 1865 - 1890. Much of Midway’s population were delivered by midwives and lived in Cameron City and the Hammocks, while others lived in Fort Reed/Sand Hill, now the location of Orlando/Sanford International Airport. Each summer, migrant workers were transported from the South to work farms and orchards in the North. The settlement was first called “The Midway Point” because two artesian wells on Sipes Avenue watered livestock being driven from Cameron City to the Sanford Freight yards, and the name was later shortened to “Midway.” A section of the community became known as Canaan City after two itinerant preachers, Reverend Beatty and Father Owens, referred to “Canaan Land” from the Bible. Education in the Midway/Canaan community began in 1906 when Mrs. Millie Morgan, a graduate of Shaw University, started a private school in her home, followed by a public school on Midway Avenue that included a tenth grade; after the old school burned, a new one was built at 2251 Jitway Avenue. The community produced the first black graduate of the University of Florida Law School, the first black elected to city government, and included black cowboys, seven professional athletes, ministers, doctors, lawyers, educators, engineers, and hard working people.