Meridian, Mississippi Hotels

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Meridian is a city located in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County in Mississippi, a state of the United States of America. Meridian is the fifth largest city in Mississippi and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 39,968 at the 2000 census. The current population is larger than in the 2000 census. Meridian is home of Mississippi State University-Meridian Campus and Meridian Community College.

Sites of Interest:
The Frank W. Williams Home, built in 1886, is a fine example of the Queen Anne style of residential architecture.

The city's Grand Opera House (MSU Riley Center for the Performing Arts is remarkable for being preserved (through extensive renovation) little changed from when it opened in 1890.

The Hamasa Shrine Temple Theater houses a 778-pipe organ, the equivalent of a 100-piece symphony orchestra, one of two organs of its kind known to exist.

Highland Park houses a Jimmie Rodgers Museum, as well as a 19th-century carousel manufactured by Gustav Dentzel.

Key Field is the site of a record setting flight by brothers Fred and Al Key in 1935, and the home of Meridian's Aviation Museum.

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