What is the history of Gardner North Dakota?

Gardner is a city in Cass County, North Dakota in the United States. Gardner, North Dakota was founded in 1881.

The town site for Gardner began as the homestead site of Charles and Elizabeth Dayton. Dayton sold a strip of land to the Great Northern Railroad for a train station in 1881. The train station was named for a landholder in the area, Steven Gardner. The town site was platted in 1882 and incorporated in 1929.

The population of Gardner, North Dakota peaked at 136 in 1950.