During Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau provided relief services for formerly enslaved Americans, and the Midway Freedman's School opened in April 1867 inside the original Second Christian Church on the grounds of the Ky Female Orphan School. By Nov. 1867, 46 students studied arithmetic, grammar, and more in a 30' by 50' log structure. On July 23, 1868, a biblical or historical tableau arranged by teacher Wm. Mosby was disrupted by a crowd of white men, and the violence left the log school too damaged for use. A new school opened on Smith Street that fall and operated until 1910. The Midway Colored School then held classes at Walnut and Elkton Streets from 1911 to 1954.