The town of Manyaska was established in 1899 as a station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad between Welcome and Ceylon. Its name comes from a Dakota word meaning "white bank or bluff." At one time, the town had two lumberyards, a post office, a creamery, a grain elevator, a general store, a hotel, and a depot, and it prospered as a shipping point for livestock and grain. Manyaska gradually declined as the post office closed in 1908, the stockyards closed, the grain elevator burned down in 1960, and the last building, the general store, was moved to Welcome in 1961 by the Ray Wohlhuter family and converted into their residence. Today, only open farmland remains.