Meridian, ID news and local guide

The town began in 1891 on the Onweiler farm north of the present site and was first called Hunter. Two years later an Odd Fellows lodge organized there and called itself Meridian because it lay on the Boise Meridian, and the town took the name. The original townsite was filed in 1893 on homestead land belonging to Eliza Ann Zenger, whose husband, Christian, filed the plat under the name Meridian. Many of the early settlers were relatives who had come west from Missouri by wagon, train or immigrant rail car, bringing their lodge and church affiliations with them. Sources give the year of incorporation as both 1902 and 1903. Around 1900 settlers planted fruit orchards and built packing houses and prune dryers. Sources Wikipedia: Meridian, Idaho