Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. For the first time, an all-white jury convicted a white official of a civil rights killing. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the morning.
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The federal courthouse was the site of the 1966–1967 trial of suspects in the murder of Chaney and two other activists. Other notable natives include Miss America 1986 Susan Akin James Chaney, an activist who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in 1964 and Hartley Peavey, founder of Peavey Electronics headquartered in Meridian. It is the world's only two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in existence. The park is also home to the Highland Park Dentzel Carousel, a National Historic Landmark. Highland Park houses a museum which displays memorabilia of his life and career, as well as railroad equipment from the steam-engine era. Jimmie Rodgers, the "Father of Country Music", was born in Meridian. The Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center (The MAX) is located in downtown Merdian. The Carnegie Branch Library, now demolished, was one of a number of Carnegie libraries built for blacks in the Southern United States during the segregation era. Meridian was home to two Carnegie libraries, one for whites and one for African Americans. Among the city's many arts organizations and historic buildings are the Riley Center, the Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian Little Theatre, and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. Meridian, MS Today, Tonight & Tomorrow's Weather Forecast AccuWeather Heat Advisory Current Weather 5:08 PM 98 F RealFeel 101 RealFeel Shade 100 Air Quality Fair Wind W 7 mph Wind Gusts 7. Also get information on current severe weather watches and warnings in your area. Click on the Layers menu in the bottom right of the radar to select radar options like Current Conditions, Storm Tracks and Feels Like Temps. Rush Foundation Hospital is the largest non-military employer in the region, employing 2,610 people. Track rain, storms and weather wherever you are with our Interactive Radar. The field is now home to the 186th Air Refueling Wing of the Air National Guard and a support facility for the 185th Aviation Brigade of the Army National Guard. Key Field is named after brothers Fred and Al Key, who set a world endurance flight record in 1935. NAS Meridian is home to the Regional Counter-Drug Training Academy (RCTA) and the first local Department of Homeland Security in the state. The area is served by two military facilities, Naval Air Station Meridian and Key Field, which employ over 4,000 people. The population within the city limits, according to 2008 census estimates, is 38,232, but a population of 232,900 in a 45 mi radius and 526,500 in a 65 mi radius, of which 104,600 and 234,200 people respectively are in the labor force, feeds the economy of the city. Although the economy slowed with the decline of the railroad industry, the city has diversified, with healthcare, military, and manufacturing employing the most people in 2010. Union Station, built in 1906, is now a multi-modal center, with access to Amtrak and Greyhound Buses averaging 242,360 passengers per year. It became the largest city in Mississippi between 18, and a leading center for manufacturing in the South, with 44 trains arriving and departing daily. Rebuilt after the war, the city entered a "Golden Age".
During the American Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman burned much of the city to the ground in the Battle of Meridian (February 1864).
Along major highways, the city is 93 mi east of Jackson, Mississippi 154 mi southwest of Birmingham, Alabama 202 mi northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana and 231 mi southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.Įstablished in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and goods transported on them, and it became a strategic trading center. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. * Updated неділя 26 Червень 2022 p.Meridian is the sixth largest city in the state of Mississippi, United States.
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