Meridian

Meridian is a city in Mississippi. It was a titan of commerce of sorts during the Reconstruction era and up through the Great Depression, even after General Tecumseh Sherman had torched it, due to its being a hub to five major rail lines and manufacturing during its golden age. It is now a treasure trove for some of the architecture preserved from that period. Meridian is also noted for being the location of the US v. Cecil Price court case, where several Ku Klux Klan members were charged for the abduction and murder of three Civil Rights workers in 1964 in nearby Neshoba County, an event analogously portrayed in the film Mississippi Burning.

By car
U.S. Interstate 20 begins at Kent, Texas and ends at Florence, South Carolina. U.S. Interstate 59 begins at New Orleans, Louisiana and ends at Wildwood, Georgia. U.S. Route 80 begins at Dallas, Texas and ends at Savannah, Georgia.

By plane
Meridian Regional Airport has nonstop service on Silver Airways to Atlanta.

By train
Amtrak serves the city via its once-daily Crecent service between New York City and New Orleans. is centrally located at 1901 Front St.

See

 * , 601 22nd Ave, 16 story Art Deco building from 1929 whose financiers were ironically put out of business by the Great Depression thereafter, now commemorated indirectly with an annual Threefoot Arts Festival.
 * , 2200 5th St, also known as the Grand Opera House from 1889, in late Victorian/Empire Romanesque style, with a distinctive proscenium that has the face of a lady.
 * , 628 25th Ave, formerly a Carnegie library from 1913, of which there were actually two in Meridian, one for whites and one for blacks, the latter no longer in existence. Aside from its attractive Carnegie design, the building houses an intriguing array of art exhibits.
 * , 1430 30th St, the first school to be built for African Americans with public funds in the state of Mississippi, it's now more or less a shell with broken windows and such.
 * , 2422 5th St, this was the only hotel where African Americans could stay prior to Civil Rights Movement changes
 * , 2422 5th St, this was the only hotel where African Americans could stay prior to Civil Rights Movement changes

Sleep
There are no hotels in the city center, most are instead clustered around the Interstate highway south of Meridan.