Great Meadows, NJ (USA)
I don't have official corroboration, but I believe that Great Meadows owes it's name to the sod farms in the area. The landscape was shaped by glaciers and the soil left behind is deep and rich.
From
http://www.njskylands.com/tour-interstate-route-80
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... The Great Meadows is a vestige of ancient glacial Lake Pequest. Thousands of years ago wildlife flourished along the marshy edges of the lake, which would have covered the interstate with at least fifty feet of water. Nine-foot long giant beavers swam, and mastodons grazed here as evidenced by the numerous bones recovered from the marsh over the years. The huge volume of decaying plant life and sediments that accumulated on the primordial lake bottom turned into the rich peat-like soil that supports farm produce and sod growers today ...
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