 On July 3,
1923, Meacham was declared the capital of
the United States for one day when President
Warren G. Harding stopped for a 
day and participated in the exercises
commemorating the eightieth
anniversary of the covered wagon
migration of 1843 (The Oregon Trail).President Warren G. Harding gave a speech in Pendleton on July 4, 1923, commemorating the Oregon Trail, at which time his wife, Florence Harding was presented with a Pendleton blanket shawl in a design that became popular as the "Harding design".Meacham has a dry-summer humid continental climate (Köppen "Dsb") with cold snowy winters and mild summers.