On May 26, 1953, the first Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival honored the 20th anniversary of the death of Jimmie Rodgers. In 1976, the Jimmie Rodgers Museum opened in Meridian’s historic Highland Park near the only two-row Dentzel Carousel in the world that whirls within the world’s only surviving Dentzel Carousel House. Today, an exquisite landmark home on 22nd Avenue on the edge of downtown Meridian houses the Jimmie Rodgers Museum. This section of town was once known as the Silk Stocking Row District.
