Garden City Station is located just a half mile north of the cache location. Not much remains today of the station except some foundations and a water tank from the steam locomotive days. The Trona Railroad began service between here and Trona in 1914. Passenger service was available through 1937. On the south side of Searles Station Road lies the interchange yard where cars to and from Trona are transferred to the Union Pacific.
Garden City was inhabited by Sofia and Jose Orozco between the late 1930s and the late 1960s. Jose was a foreman for the railroad and together they raised 13 children here. Over the years structures in the city included: a stage station, post office, boarding house, general store, and a barn for 100 mules. The remaining structure, the water tank, is reportedly scheduled for removal and transfer to a railroad museum in Barstow.