Garden City 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 ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Garden City Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 255 as of the 2010 census.

History

A post office called Garden City was established in 1857. The community was named from the garden-like setting of the original town site. The First Baptist Church building was completed in 1868. The Blue Earth County Fair has been held in Garden City since 1860 with the exception of a few years the fair was cancelled. In 1921, on a visit from London,

Henry Wellcome Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (21 August 1853 – 25 July 1936) was an American and British pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Mainville Burroughs, Jr., Silas Bur ...

donated land he had purchased to the hamlet of Garden City to build a consolidated school. The school that was built on the site became Wellcome Memorial school, eventually combining with Rapidan, Vernon Center, and

Lake Crystal Lake Crystal is a city in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States, established in 1869. The population was 2,539 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Mankato, Minnesota, Mankato-Nor ...

school districts. The building now serves as the site of Wellcome Manor Family Services.

Notable person

(1853–1936), pharmaceutical entrepreneur

References

Census-designated places in Blue Earth County, Minnesota Census-designated places in Minnesota 1857 establishments in Minnesota Territory Populated places established in 1857 {{BlueEarthCountyMN-geo-stub