Manley

  • Rock County applied for a $25 million grant to construct a transload and rail yard facility east of Magnolia. The facility consists of a 40,000-square-foot warehouse and 11 tracks off the Buffalo Ridge Regional Railroad for rail car storage.
    County approves rail storage, staging area near Manley
    By Mavis Fodness
    March 20, 2024
    Commissioners approved a conditional use permit for Ellis & Eastern to operate a temporary storage and staging area near the Buffalo Ridge Regional Railroad (BRRR) in western Rock County. They supported the county’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation to issue the permit after a Feb. 26 public hearing. Land Management Director Eric Hartman presented the commission’s recommendation…
  • 1890: Businesses, post office shape Manley
    By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical Society
    February 16, 2021
    The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911.   Rock County Village (continued from 02-11-20 edition of the Star Herald)            At this early stage of Manley’s development an invitation was extended to both Beaver Creek and Valley Springs to join forces with the new town, before circumstances should force such a procedure.18 The boom that was expected to eventuate in 1890 did not…
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