Highland Park is a historic park in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. Home to a museum honoring Jimmie Rodgers, a Meridian native, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places i
Lagoon in Highland Park
Israel A Marks (1913), by Allen George Newman
Historic Park sign
Historic Dentzel Carousel
Gustav Dentzel
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Gustav Dentzel was a German immigrant who built some of the earliest carousels in the United States.
Highland Park (Meridian, Mississippi)
…dance pavilion and greenhouse. The Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Shelter Building was manufactured about 1896 for the 1904 St. Louis Exposition by Gustav Dentzel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Meridian bought the carousel in 1909 and installed it in its house in the park. It is the only remaining two-row stationary…
Gustav Dentzel