Gholson (formerly known as Meander) is an unincorporated community in Noxubee County, Mississippi.

[2] A post office operated under the name Gholson from 1838 to 1976.

[4] The institute, founded by Thomas S. Gathright in 1854,[5][6] was the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the Civil War.

The school continued to exist until it was again destroyed by fire in 1875.

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