Ball's for "Meridian," he having first secured a postoffice by that name. Ragsdale's plat was for "Ragsdale City " Mr. Ball had purchased a tract of 80 acres, and both parties immediately began to lay off town lots. Ragsdale, meanwhile, had brought out R.McLemore, and John T. regard the point for a while, that it was with difficulty persuaded to put in even a switch for a flag station and when it did, called the place "Sowashee Station," from a creek near by. Richard McLemore possessed most of the lands and his plantation home was the only notable residence in the vicinity. Its location, about 1854, was the result of the proposed crossing of the Mobile & Ohio by the Alabama & Vicksburg, then known as the Vicksburg & Montgomery railroad.Ĭotton and corn fields occupied its present site, surrounded by oak and pine forests over clay hills and bottom lands of the head waters of the Chickasawhay. The Alabama Great Southern, New Orleans & Northeastern and Alabama & Vicksburg railroads have their terminals at this point. It claims a population of 25,000 and is growing rapidly. Meridian, the capital of Lauderdale county, is situated 140 miles east of the Mississippi river, from Vicksburg, and 15 miles west of the State of Alabama being on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, 135 miles above Mobile.
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