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We would like to provide the residents of  Halfway  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Halfway Home page. The Halfway Home page provides as much information as possible on Halfway. Knowing Halfway’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Halfway’s Home page, you will also find Halfway’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Halfway has a population of 303. 59.1% of Halfway’s inhabitants are Male, and 40.9 are female. 52.8% of Halfway is married and 56% own their own home. Household median income in Halfway is $39,464, and the individual median income is $26,518. Halfway’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.7%), Multiple(5%), Hispanic(1.7%), Native(1.7%), Black(1.3%), Pacific(0.3%).


Halfway earned a place in the history of the dot-com era in December 1999, when it received and accepted an offer to rename itself as Half.com, after the e-commerce start-up, for one year in exchange for $110,000; 20 computers for the school; and other financial subsidies. It became the first city in the world to rename itself as a dot com.


Among the less obvious reasons the town was chosen were its small population size (and thus its likelihood to accept such an offer) and the city's location, which fit perfectly into Half.com's marketing scheme. "They're within four miles of the 45th parallel which makes it halfway between the equator and the North Pole".


The proclamation did not legally change its name. The city created and posted two signs at its borders that greeted visitors with "America's First Dot-com City". The city auctioned one of these off in September 2007 for $1000; the winner was Half.com's founder Josh Kopelman.Half.com was bought by eBay in February 2001.The original financial hardships that led to the city accepting Half.com's offer returned in 2004 when a company owning a promissory note, secured by its fairgrounds and improvements, demanded payment of over $530,000.


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