Garland Justice Court

This area was first visited by trappers in the 1820’s. Settlers began to put down roots settlements in the Bear River Valley were along the foothills and East of Garland at Bear River City, Collinston, Fielding, and Plymouth where they grazed their livestock, made use of the springs in the area and for water established dry farms. At the beginning of the 1880’s an investor who was a freighter, miner, cattleman, contractor and promoter purchased 52,000 acres of land from the Central Pacific Railroad. He together with the owner of a sheep herd bought more land West and North of Garland to form the Corinne Mill Canal and Stock Company. Settlers who began arriving in the Garfield area in the late 1880’s could acquire land by purchasing it from the company, the railroad or by homesteading.