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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. The population was 39,968 at the 2000 census.

The area which is now Meridian was originally inhabited by the Choctaw Indians, who agreed to vacate their land via the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830. Caucasian settlers soon moved into the area, the first of which was a Virginian named Richard McLemore, who tried to attract people to the area by offering them free land.

The original settlement was located in 1854 at the junction of the Mobile & Ohio and the Vicksburg & Montgomery Railroad lines, and was named Sowashee Station after the nearby Sowashee Creek. The town was officially incorporated as "Meridian" in 1860. Even at this time, it was only inhabited by some fifteen families.