If you take Midway Route south of Monticello on South Main, you will be headed to Long Prairie. Long Prairie was approximately seven miles long and three miles wide. According to my grandfather, Dan Wolfe, it was called 3x7. Now, I am not certain exactly where the upper end of the Prairie began, but it was somewhere close to the Will Boykins, Otho Wells, and Delton Rogers places. This is also the beginning of what was called Paradise. In fact, Mr. Wells was the postmaster once. Now, I've spoken to Mrs. Bud West, who was a Warren, and now deceased, as well as Mr. Waymond Griffin, who was a half-brother to Mr. West, and the best that I can ascertain was that there was a split(falling out) in some church and one was created there, which was called Prairie Hall. It later had a split and ceased to exist. Because the church was called Prairie Hall, the lower section of the north end of Long Prairie(above Lone Sassafras Cemetery) began to be called Prairie Hall. The area east of Lone Sassafras Cemetery was Pleasant Grove. Pleasant Grove also went south of the cemetery to the curve where the Scharf place was (later Murray Funderburg). Once the curve is rounded somewhere between the old Roy Rial place and the Odessa Wallis/Elray Wallis place, the community of Prairie Grove starts and goes to slightly below the Ashley Co. line. Some people call the road from town all the way down the Prairie Road, but most modern people call it Midway Route. The reason it began to be called Midway Route was because the mail rider carried the mail from Monticello to just below the road where the Prairie Hall church was. Then he turned left beside the present Dudley Boone place and the old Joe Griffin place and went east about a mile before turning back south. Then the mail route crossed the road running through the middle of the Pleasant Grove Community and continued south across what was called Racoon Prairie Road. A few years back a man bought a huge amount of acreage south of Pleasant Grove, which reacher to the Moring Deer Camp and farmed beans. I think it was part of the Williamson Ranch. Then a man bought it and built a hunting lodge. At that time, he fenced off the road just before the deer camp, and no one can get through there today. As a child, my grandfather and I cattle hunted, hog hunted, and searched for lost stock prior to the advent of the stock law. The Racoon Prairie part of the road started right beside the Claud Green and Maud Green place. I've come through it in a wagon with Memaw and Grandie just for fun in the 60's when my Grandie was trying to break a young horse to work. Something scared the horse and almost wrecked us, but Grandie managed to calm the young horse and get us out of the "pickle." The Racoon Prairie part of Midway Route ended when it crossed what today is called the Gates Mainline Road, which is the old road bed of the train sent from Wilmar and Gates Lumber Company to its various camps. From there to the present location of what is today called FIVE POINT Junction, the road split Midway wide open. At the present time, when the road leaves the pavement by the Boone place, it goes through nothing but pine forests of Georgia-Pacific with the exception of the stretch of farm land where the lodge was or is. Dale Handley bought this and farms it presently. At any rate, Long Praire was made up of several communities. Today people think the Prairie means Prairie Grove Community, but this is not actually true. We are the lower end of the Prairie and Prairie Hall and Paradise were the upper end. By the way, once Midway Route gets to the corner of the old Dan Wolfe place(my place now), the name changes back to Prairie Road on the new 9ll addresses. This is because the mail from that point on comes out of Hamburg. Therefore , the road from Monticello postoffice is Midway Rt., and from the Hamburg Post Office , it is Prairie Road. Hopefully, I have helped someone.BETH