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Garrison, a city in Benton County, Iowa, was named for Nelson Garrison, a farmer who kept the local post office in his home west of town and owned the property in 1872.

Garrison's post office opened in 1873.

The 2020 census counted 344 people in Garrison, living in 133 households and 91 families.

Garrison was at its largest in the 1900 census with 482 residents, having first been counted with 255 people in 1880.

The city covers just 0.25 square miles of land, yet it is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Old Creamery Theatre Company, a not-for-profit professional theatre, was founded in Garrison in 1971, when ten theatre colleagues set up in a vacant building that had once served the community as a co-op dairy - the source of the company's name.

Writer Mildred Armstrong Kalish was born in Garrison and wrote a memoir about growing up in the area during the Great Depression.

Garrison's public schools are operated by the Vinton-Shellsburg Community School District; the town had its own school district until it merged into Vinton's on July 1, 1969.