Named in honor of  Maj Gen Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Class of 1836, USMA, who was engineering officer in charge of construction of many of the facilities in Wash D. C. - including the Washington Aqueduct and Cabin John Bridge.   He supervised construction of the dome and wings of the U. S. Capitol.

The Freightship MEIGS, also named in his honor, which had been in Army service for many years, was bombed and sunk by the Japanese at Darwin, Austraila, in 1942.

Ref:  http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22116.htm