The New Student's Reference Work/Meridian, Miss.

Meridian, Miss., a town in the cotton-belt, capital of Lauderdale County in east-central Mississippi, is 85 miles east of Jackson and 135 northwest of Mobile, Ala. It has a number of educational institutions, including Meridian Academy (Methodist); Lincoln School (Congregational), both for colored students; Meridian Normal College; and East Mississippi Female College (Southern Methodist). Its commerce is chiefly in corn and cotton, and it has steam corn-mills and establishments for the manufacture of cotton-yarn, cottonseed-oil, plows, doors, sashes, blinds and furniture, besides cotton-compresses, cottongins and railroad-shops. Population 23,285.