Middleway, founded in the late 1700s, flourished as a trading center for most of the 1800s. About 1820, the Lutheran and German Reformed congregations joined to build Union Church, and after some years passed before the building was erected, the Presbyterians agreed to bear one third of the cost. Services were alternated, giving the church its name. As the village declined, the church and its cemetery deteriorated. In a more recent destruction, vandals smashed tombstones with bats and knocked others askew. Grace Episcopal Church later acquired the forsaken property and restored the site to its former dignity. The building, which dates to the 1820s, now serves as a church hall for the Episcopalians and the community, and a foot-pumped reed organ from the 1830s remains inside. The earliest graves lie at the far west end of the cemetery.
