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History · Meadowlands

Meadowlands’ post office opened in 1906, and 27% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 1930.

1906first post office
0on the National Register
27%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Meadowlands began

When was Meadowlands founded?

1906

The Meadowlands post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 121 in 19302020 census: 134120 years
Founding year: the first Meadowlands post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Meadowlands’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Meadowlands are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Meadowlands’s history is told.

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The story

How Meadowlands came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Meadowlands.

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Meadowlands, as its name would suggest, is one of the few areas of arable land in 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.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Meadowlands, 1906 to 1963

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906Post officeThe Meadowlands post office opens
  3. 1934Born hereEd DeWitt is born here
  4. 1963On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Meadowlands on the map in 1963

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Meadowlands.

Meadowlands on the 1963 USGS map1963Meadowlands sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Meadowlands.

People over time

Meadowlands, census by census

010019401960198020002020Peak: 176

Between 92 and 176 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Meadowlands’ Wikipedia page.

Questions about Meadowlands’ history

What year was Meadowlands founded?

The Meadowlands post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.