Maiden Rock Village is an historic river and railroad setlement. On the edge of the Mississippi river at its widest point, the village is surrounded by the beautiful river bluffs, farmlands and creeks flurishing with wild life. The river's edge provides shelter and wetlands where thousands of birds fly annually along the Mississippi Flyway. Originally a logging settlement known as Harrisburg, the village was renamed Maiden Rock in 1856 after the magnificent bluff downriver. An old Indian legend tells the story of a Dakota Indian maiden called Winona, Rather than marry the brave her father,Chief Red Wing, chose for her, Winona leaped from the Maiden Rock bluff to her death.

From the 1800s to the mid 1900s the village of Maiden Rock grew. A steamboat landing was added in 1857 and train tracks and a depot were completed providing four daily stops in Maiden Rock. By 1915 the train had supplanted the steamboat traffic.

The Maiden Rock Creamery was built in 1945 and was a fully operating creamery on the river from 1946 to 1958. After the creamery shut down, the building was not in use for some time; until Tom Blanck, an architect, purchased it in 1983. From 1983 until 2002 Tom created the Maiden Lane shops, some apartments, and an antique shop on the top floor.