Local History

A station named Welch on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, in Hendricks Township, in 1891.  The settlement formed around the sawmill and general store of Hudson & Donaldson in 1897.  George A. Donaldson became its first postmaster on November 4, 1898, and was still serving when the name was changed to Garnet on December 31, 1904. 

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

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