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Garden City, TX - History
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Welcome to the Garden City Home page. The Garden City Home page provides as much information as possible on Garden City. Knowing Garden City’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Garden City’s Home page, you will also find Garden City’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Garden City has a population of 292. 43.8% of Garden City’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.2 are female. 75% of Garden City is married and 88.5% own their own home. Garden City’s Ethnic is the following: White(65.4%), Hispanic(34.6%), Other(34.6%).
Garden City's history began in 1886, when what became the town's post office was established in a general store, and a settlement began to develop in the area around the business. The post office was to be named after the store proprietor, a man by the name of Gardner. However, after a clerical error by officials in Washington, the postal franchise was granted under the name "Garden" City. Garden City was the first Texas community platted by renowned surveyor W.
D. Twichell, a Minnesota native.In 1893, Glasscock County was organized, and Garden City vied for the county seat along with two other area communities, New California and Dixie. New California was ultimately chosen as the county seat; it was located in a less flood-prone region and had a readily accessible water supply.
However, at the time of the county's organization, New California consisted of a mere two dwellings and an equally sparse population, whereas Garden City boasted a school, the general store/post office, and several homes. In a unique compromise, most of Garden City's structures were placed on wheels and relocated to the New California site, and on April 5, 1893, the settlement was renamed Garden City.
A two-story stone courthouse was constructed later that same year, followed by a new, larger courthouse in 1910 (with the former building remaining in use as the Glasscock County Jail). Between 1927 and 1943, Garden City's population fluctuated between 100 and 250, and several businesses and a newspaper (the Garden City Gazette) had come and gone.
By 1945, Garden City had eight businesses and a population of 200. In the 1950s, oil was discovered nearby, creating a bit of a boom for the area. While Garden City's population did not experience the spike that other West Texas oil boom towns had seen (the population peaked at 300 in 1968, many years after the boom had ended), it did increase the community's commerce, with the number of operating businesses almost doubling from 1947 to 1968.
By 1980, the population had fallen to 293, a figure maintained until 2010, when that year's census counted 334 residents. The area is conducive to wind power generation, as is much of West Texas, and several wind farms have been proposed for the area. Limestone from the quarry of TexaStone in Garden City was donated in 2004 for establishment of the Stonehenge replica in Odessa, Texas.
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