The Meadow Inn was “Straight Out Cedar Avenue South to Minnesota River Bottoms.”  A 1956 article gave the address as 3000 E. Black Dog Road.

An ad dated July 1943 promised picnic grounds and dancing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.

There was a Meadow Inn Park in the same area in 1945.

Unfortunately, reports of robberies are the best sources of information about the owners of establishments.  In October 1956, a “swarthy, loud-mouthed gunman” held up owners Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schoeder.

In June 1958, two youths killed owner Donald Haeg during the commission of a robbery.

Photo of flooding from May 1952

Aerial shot from the Dakota County Historical Society