Local History

Began as a lumbering town about 1870, with the mills of L. Pennoyer and R. H. Nason.  The latter, with Helen B. Allen and W. Husen, also built a salt block here in 1879.  A station on the Michigan Central Railroad.  Named after the nearby Garfield coal mine. 

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

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