King & Queen of the Gypsies - Meridian, Mississippi

Aug 3, 2021 · 8m 25s
King & Queen of the Gypsies - Meridian, Mississippi
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Meridian is the seventh largest city in the in Mississippi, with a population of over 40,000 people. Established in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and...

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Meridian is the seventh largest city in the in Mississippi, with a population of over 40,000 people. Established in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and goods transported on them, and it became a strategic trading center. But while the city of Meridian has much history, it also holds the graves of some of it most unknown history, the graves of the King and Queen of the Gypsies.

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Researched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Roadside America [Story 12427] Clarion Ledger [Hundreds visit her gravesite each year Queen gypsies Mississippi royalty] The Southern Rambler [graves of the king and queen of the gypsies] Meridian Star [queen kelly mitchell a slice of meridians history] Wikipedia [Meridian, Mississippi] Atlas Obscura [grave of the gypsy queen] Wikipedia [Romani People]

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