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Historical Presentations in Manville on July 4

Posted 7/1/26

MANVILLE - Did you know: There was once a cheese factory in Manville? There was a college in Jireh that offered four years of high school and two years of college? Keeline once had a bank, a newspaper, elementary and high schools, and 440 residents? The first person buried in the Manville cemetery was murdered and his assailant was never caught? The 1700-pound college bell in Jireh was donated to the Red Cross in World War II to be salvaged for the war effort? Keeline shipped out more cream, hogs, and grain than any other place between Chadron and Douglas? Manville once had 1500 residents?

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