The village meridian generator#

The interurban Station and Generator building (west one-third of the old library at Meridian and Idaho Streets) was built in 1912, and the line continued on to Nampa via Meridian. Turning east on Broadway and ending at East Second, the last car would spend the night in Meridian before returning to Boise early the next morning with passengers and freight. Rail Transportation (1908–28) įollowing the raising of $4,000 to lay the Interurban rail line from Onweiler (Meridian and Ustick Roads), the tracks were completed into the village center. In 1941, Meridian's status changed from a village to a city. Production continued through the mid-1940s, when it was no longer profitable and the businesses closed. Local orchards produced many varieties of apples and Italian prunes. They established local institutions soon after arriving and filed for homestead lands.Īround the start of the 20th century, settlers established fruit orchards and built fruit packing businesses and prune dryers along the railroad tracks. The early settlers, many of whom were relatives, left their homes in Missouri to go west, either by wagon, train or immigrant railroad car, bringing their lodge and church preferences with them. Her husband, Christian, filed the plat with county officials and called it Meridian. The original Meridian town site was filed in 1893 on homestead grant land belonging to Eliza Ann Zenger. Irrigation districts, such as the Nampa-Meridian and Settlers irrigation districts, continue to serve the immediate Meridian area. Irrigation soon became a necessity, since having a water source was a requirement for receiving the patent for the land from the U.S. Their previous homes were in areas where rain provided the needed moisture to raise crops. The information in the following sections (Irrigation, Village, Rail Transportation, and Creamery) is found on the displays in the Meridian City Hall Plaza.Įarly settlers arriving in the area came with no knowledge of gravity flow irrigation. The Settlers' Irrigation Ditch, 1892, changed the arid region into a productive farming community which was incorporated in 1902. lodge was organized and called itself Meridian because it was located on the Boise Meridian and the town was renamed. The town was established in 1891 on the Onweiler farm north of the present site and was called Hunter.