Local History

Founded and platted as a subdivision in Nankin Township by Arnold F. Folker in 1921 and when the village was incorporated in 1927, he became its first president.  Incorporated as a city in 1933.  Garden City is to believed to have been named because it was platted into lots large enough for their owners, when unemployed, to cultivate vegetable gardens.

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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