Editing Meadowlands, Minnesota (section)

==History==
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Meadowlands, as its name would suggest, is one of the few areas of [[arable land]] in [[St. Louis County, Minnesota|Saint Louis County]]. While Meadowlands prospered and grew due to the support it provided to the region's farms, the steady decline in those same farms (and the large families they supported) during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s heralded the beginning of the town's gradual decline.

During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] dealership (which also carried [[CNH Global|New Holland]] farm machinery), a [[bank]], a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a [[cheese]] factory, various restaurants, a [[movie theater]] and the Toivola–Meadowlands School, a K–12 institution. However, the loss of the large farm families gradually reduced the student population until Independent School District 710 chose to close the school.   An attempt was made to convert T–M into a "Charter School", but it ultimately proved unsuccessful.  Before closing, the school sent its 9-man football team to the Minnesota State Finals twice in the 1980s.

Currently it possesses only a single bar/grill establishment, and four places of worship.

The retail and service related facilities have seen a slight increase in business due to the recent expansion of tourism related to bird-watching.  The rivers, lakes, fields and arboreal bog areas around Meadowlands offer visitors the opportunity to view species ranging from small song birds, such as the waxwing, to Bald Eagles.

Also winter brings with it increased snowmobile traffic, as a former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad line runs along the eastern edge of the town.  Now converted to an ATV–snowmobile trail, this former rail line runs from [[Alborn Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota|Alborn]] in the south, north to [[Pengilly, Minnesota|Pengilly]] on the [[Iron Range]].