MIDVALE WAS HOME TO A VIBRANT SOUTH SLAV COMMUNITY Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, August 1995 As early as 1890 Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes began arriving in the Midvale-Murray area seeking work in the smelters. Many of them came to stay after the turn of the century, in part because of poor agricultural conditions in the Old Country and labor …