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MERIDIAN , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Lauderdale county,
See also:Mississippi, U.S.A., about go m. E. of See also:Jackson. Pop. (18go), 10,624; (1900), 14,050, of whom 5787 were negroes; (1910
See also:census), 23,285. It is served by the See also:Southern, the See also:Alabama See also:Great Southern, the See also:Mobile & See also:Ohio, and the New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans
& See also:North Eastern and the Alabama & See also:Vicksburg (See also:Queen &
See also:Crescent Route) See also:railways. It is the seat of the See also:East Mississippi Insane See also:Hospital, of the See also:state Masonic Widows and Orphans' 'See also:Home and of the Meridian See also:Women's See also:College (non-sectarian, opened in 1903), the Meridian Male College (opened in See also:root), and, for negroes, the See also:Lincoln School (Congregational) and Meridian See also:Academy (Methodist Episcopal). The city is an important See also:market for See also:cotton grown in the surrounding See also:country, and is the See also:principal manufacturing city in the state. Its factory products, chiefly railway supplies and cotton products, increased in value from $1,924,465 in 1900 to $3,267,600 in 1905, or 69-8% in five years. See also:Mineral See also:waters (especially lithia) are bottled in and near the city. Meridian was laid out in 1854 at a proposed railway See also:crossing, and was chartered as a city in 1860. In See also:February 1864 See also:General See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Tecumseh See also:Sherman, with an See also:army of about 20,000, made an expedition from Vicksburg to Meridian, then an important railway centre and See also:depot for Confederate supplies, chiefly for the purpose of making inoperative the Mobile & Ohio and the Jackson & See also:Selma railways; on the 14th of the See also:month his army entered Meridian, and within a See also:week destroyed nearly everything in the city except the private houses, and tore up over See also:Ito m. of track. In the " Meridian See also:riot " of 1871—a prominent See also:episode of reconstruction—when one of several negroes on trial for urging See also:mob violence had shot the presiding See also:judge, the whites, especially a party from Alabama interested in the trial, killed a number of negroes and burned a See also:negro school. On the 2nd of See also:March 1906 a See also:cyclone caused great loss of See also:life and See also:property.
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