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Meridian received its name from the Indian Meridian on which it is located. This line is used as the main street and also separates the town into two townships. The west half being in Bear Creek Township, and the east half in South Cimmarron Township.
In 1902 the townsite was laid out by the Meridian Right-of-Way and Townsite company, and very soon many homes were built and the town began to be populated.
In late 1902, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was built through the town and soon after the Fort Smith and Western established a branch line through Meridian and on to Guthrie.
During a fire in 1908, much of the downtown was destroyed, and was later rebuilt in 1920 when a small boom hit the town and grocery stores, cafe’s, music parlors, Meridian Mills, garages, blacksmith shops, and department stores were built. Several doctors also opened up a few drugstores and the post office was rebuilt as well.
Meridian’s first school was located in an upper story of the drugstore, but was destroyed in the fire and in 1936, a large sandstone school was built by the Works Progress Administration for the white children, and later the L’Overture school was built for the black children. In 1970, both schools were closed and the school district annexed to Coyle.
Thanks to our new best friend at the Oklahoma City Library, Larry Johnson who helped us find some very hard to find history on Meridian.
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Wow I live in Coyle which is a few miles east of Meridian but I’ve never explored there. I love old buildings and homes and have found some really neat ones around here. I will have to explore Meridian now. How do you find these places? Do you get permission to go inside? If so, how do you know who to contact? There’s an awesome old farmhouse out here that I’ve gotten permission to explore but I’m waiting until fall when some of the vegetation and ticks die off!
I think they should do downtown Coyle as well. Alot of old abandon buildings and houses here.
Oh and the outskirts of Langston
hahahah Sara you’re hilarious. Love ya!! Sure wish we would have known about this website back in the day!
I spent a good portion of my childhood around this town. My grandparents were both postmasters in Meridian and so were part of this nice little community. Why no pics of the stone school? It is a beautiful example of WPA work. I remember community pot-luck suppers there. It is by far the neatest building in town. If anyone wants to know anything about this town, I know some and my family knows a lot.
Yeah I would like to know what happened? Why is it Abandoned?
me and my dad wenht there and we did our investegaten wich I think the image on page 96 there is a image of a calender with a year on it wich was 1926. I think thatwas when most of the town was abandon are greatest find was a 1950 7 up soda bottle under a stiar case
Loved the pictures. I grew up in Guthrie and would often travel the back roads with my mother on our way somewhere. My grandparents lived in Coyle and we would often go on the dirt roads just to see old buildings. One day I did notice 2 Oklahoma Furniture trucks in the trees. I ask a old man (the only one I saw in the town) who owned the trucks and he said that he did. I paid him $10 to take one of the doors or air horn off so I would have a reminder of the truck that my daddy drove.(I have a picture of the truck with the same number on it, as one of the trucks that has almost rusted away) I would guess that the trucks are still there but I think that the old man maybe not.