Homesteading in Finney County

Garden City

The area of land on which Garden City was later platted was homesteaded by C. J. (Buffalo) Jones, John A. Stevens, and the Fulton brothers, Jim and Billy in the late 1870's and early 1880's. Garden City was incorporated on January 13, 1883.

The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown.

Sources

Finney County Historical Society. History of Finney County. Garden City, KS: 1950.