Meadowbrook was one of the earlier settlements to develop because of logging in the area prior to 1880.  The Chippewa Falls Lumber interests finished cutting the white pine in the forests about 1900.  The topography of the locality is level and a stream passes through a meadow barren of trees but overgrown with a luxuriant growth of marsh grass.  Because of this meadow, the pioneers called the region "Meadowbrook", a name which has persisted through the years.

 The pioneer settlers of this area were interested in farming and were a courageous and rugged people.  Farmland was improved slowly by the hard way -- manual labor and horse or oxen power.  The only tools and implements used by the settlers were the saw, the axe, the plow, and the harrow.  Pine stumps are stubborn and tenacious, and are resistant to decay.  The first farmers were forced to grub them out of the soil with the aid of the power of the horse and oxen.  In later years, if the farm was prosperous, he used an improvised stump puller powered by a team of horses.  This machine was of the windlass type consisting of a vertical barrel or drum on which is wound a steel cable.  A tongue or arm extends at right angles to the axis of the drum to which the team is hitched.  The team travels in a circular path causing the cable to wind around the drum, thereby pulling the stump and roots from the soil.  Other less prosperous farmers used the block and tackle which was less expensive and also less cumbersome.  Both machines have good mechanical advantage and are labor saving and much faster.

 One of the earliest pioneer groups to settle in Sawyer County was the Amish settlement which located in the vicinity of Nissleys Corners.  This group is a Protestant denomination which stands for nonresistance, simplicity of dress, abstinence from accumulation of worldly goods, and restriction of marriage to members of the group.

 The Meadowbrook area was a portion of the town of Weirgor until June 19, 1919, when the township of Meadowbrook was established.

 Elementary education for the boys and girls of Meadowbrook was provided for in a new school building constructed in 1919.  Access to the school from all directions was not possible, since only one road led to the school from the north.  Pupils from the southern part of the district were forced to walk across open fields to school.

 The location was impractical and the electors in 1921 decided to build a school in a centrally located site.  The site selected was the location of the present school.  In later years a second room was added, and the school was converted from a one-room rural school to a two-room state graded school, and was named Brunet School.

 Another school was built about 1915 and was named the Riverside School.  It was located one half mile south of the Raynor Dantzman farm near the Brunet River, and its operation was discontinued in 1946.

 An influx of settlers occurred in 1919 and soon a need was felt for a place of worship.  Because the majority of the population was Protestant, the Reverend Dale of the Exeland Methodist Church was consulted, and he assisted in the organization of the Brunet Methodist Church.  The congregation purchased the original schoolhouse, and on the afternoon of October 1, 1919, the first service was held.

 As the farm population increased, and since transportation was slow and inconvenient, the need was felt for the county fair to be held near population centers.  In 1920 the County Fair Committee authorized that a county fair be held in the town of Meadowbrook.  These activities were held each year in the town hall and winners in the various exhibits entered their displays at the county fair in Hayward and the fair held at Superior.  The fairs in Meadowbrook were discontinued with the fair of 1924.

 As the highways improved and automobiles became commonplace, people began to conduct their business activities and seek recreation in larger communities.  The shingle and lath mill discontinued business and the millworkers moved away.  Meadowbrook is now an agricultural community with no mercantile or manufacturing enterprises.