ROCK COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Date Built	Current Use	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
hills		Swanson Antiques, 2 miles west of U.S. 75 on Rock County Road 20, NW of Luverne.	C	1895	Business	None	Wood
Hills		214 South Main Street (GPS: 43.527667, -96.359211)	C	????	Business	None	Wood
jasper		608 Hatting Avenue in Luverne (GPS: 43.645697, -96.218515)	C	????	Business	None	Wood
luverne		106 E. Fletcher Street, between Freeman and Cedar Streets (GPS: 43.651737, -96.209034)	C	1913	Railroad	In Use	Brick
manley		Two miles NW of Beaver Creek at 935 40th Street (GPS: 43.620233, -96.392970).	C	????	Storage	None	Wood
Steen (Virginia)		West 1st Street on the alley halfway between South Church Street and South Water (in the backyard of 116 South Church Street) in Hills. (GPS: 43.529136,-96.361049).	C	????	Garage	None	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Ash Creek		The depot was at the west end of Crey Street. It was built in 1899.
Beaver Creek		Built in 1878, this station was on the west side of North 2nd Street.
Bruce		This town essentially does not exist anymore. When there were streets here, the station was on Railroad Street just west of Main Street.
Hardwick		This station was on the north side of Main Street, on the west side of the tracks.
Hills	AND	According to the GN Valuation Records for 1915, the GN and IC jointly owned a small freight transfer shed here that measured 7'x9'. It was built in 1902.
Jasper
Kenneth		This station was on 1st Street between Main Street and 1st Avenue.
Kanaranzi		This station was on Railway Street just west of Sherman Avenue.
Luverne		Part of this station was moved SE of town off 140th Avenue where it served as a residence before burning down. Its original location was on the east side of Blue Mountain Avenue on the east side of the tracks north of East Lincoln Street at GPS: 43.655503, -96.202650.
Luverne		This was the original combination station here and later used as a freight station after the new passenger station was built. It was on Fletcher Street across the tracks from the existing station at GPS: 43.651531, -96.209331.
Magnolia (Drake)		This station was on the east side of Broadway Street between the main line and a siding to the north. It was built in 1899.
Manley		The first station here was a boxcar body with alterations.
Manley		This two-story combination station was built in 1895. After passenger service ended (it was abandoned in 1954), it was later moved to a local farm where it remained for years. It was torn down along with the rest of the farm around 2000 after the owner of the property died. According to the GN Valuation Records for 1915, the station measured 18'x60'.
1898 ROCK COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Hills (Illinois Central) - Now only the agent's bay and a part of the station remains. This part of the station was moved to a farm in Iowa and then returned to MN when Larry Swanson (in the photo) moved it to his antique shop in Luverne. The original location of this station was the east side of South Central Avenue when that street went through to the tracks. Manley (CSt.PM&O) - This station was originally from Manley and was moved to Beaver Creek when that town's station burned. According to the 1914 map of the town, the separate Omaha and GN stations in Manley were virtually next door to each other on 4th Street (when the town had streets platted). The GN station was to the north of the Omaha station. Both stations were just to the west of the tower that controlled the crossing of the two railroads. Steen (Illinois Central) - This station was originally on the west side of Main Street in Steen.