Maloney is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Lee County,

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, United States. Originally the location of the William Bryant Maloney's farm, the train tracks passed by the farm before crossing the

North Fork Kentucky River North Fork Kentucky River is a river in Kentucky in the United States. It is a fork of the Kentucky River that it joins just upstream of Beattyville. It is nearly long with an average slope of , and an overall basin size (at Jackson) of Basin ...

at Sharp Rock (locally known place where a triangular "sharp" rock sticks out of the River near the turn of the bend). Maloney family added a train stop, a water pumping station, and a mail drop. Because of the difficulty of turning larger trains around at Natural Bridge, Maloney added a train wye designed to turn the larger engines around. Eventually, the train stop, the bend in the river, and the bridge gained the Maloney name: Maloney, Maloney Bend, and Maloney Railroad Bridge.

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