The town is fifteen miles northwest of Bangor, across Glenburn, Kenduskeag, and Corinth. Its waters are not large, but are of respectable size. Pleasant Pond stretches east and west a mile about the southwest corner, itself about a mile in length, but rather narrow. It is one of a chain of ponds on the Kenduskeag Stream, with a very little one between it and the Mill pond a half-mile distant, which reaches eastward nearly one and a half miles in a narrow street to Garland village, southwest of which is also a small pond. As the stream runs off hence to the southeast, there is a slight expansion of it half-way to Holt's Mills, but hardly enough to be called a lake or pond. From Holt's the stream makes a pretty straight dash for the corner of the town, where it goes to Exeter. It recieves but two tributaries from the south in Garland, and they very small; but on the north eight effluents, all rising in the central belt of the town, and flowing altogether in Garland, enter it. The last of these on the eastward has a length of three miles, with a general north and south course. About a mile east of it flows another tributary, with two little branches in Garland, but which itself flows into Charleston. Northwest of the central belt in which Kenduskeag affluents rise are the headwaters of the main stream, which flows across the north of Dexter. The northernmost of the brooks makes a small lake about half a mile from the Piscataquis line. East of it are the beginning rivulets of several creeks that belong mainly to Piscataquis county. One tiny stream flows from Charleston for half a mile across the northeast angle of the town. Below the Kenduskeag, a mile to a mile and a half south of Garland post-office, are the heads of a little stream that shortly flows into Exeter.

The central and southern belts of Garland town are well settled; the northern more sparsely. The three post-offices of the town are altogether in the southern third of the town. Garland post-office is about half-way across the town from east to west, on the stage road from Dexter to Exeter, and an east and west road that, with a little jog in the village, runs across the town. At Garland are Congregrational and Free-Will Baptist Churches, the Town House, School No. 3, and several mills, factories and shops. Power is furnished by the Kenduskeag Stream, the village being at the eastern extremity of the long mill-pond. The village cemetery is a mile east, at the crossing of the north and south road. Nearly two miles westward, at the east of Pleasant Pond, are the West Garland post-office and School No. 2. Holt's Mills post-office, with School No. 12, are in the southeast angle of the town, about a mile from the extreme corner, on the road southwest from Garland village into Corinth, and on to Bangor. School No. 7 is a mile west of Holt's Mills, with the Town Farm a little south of it. From them a road runs north five miles, intersecting near the county line a northwest and southeast road running from Charleston about five miles across the town to Dover. School No. 5, and the Methodist Episcopal church are on the former road, the latter at the crossing of an east and west road through the center of Garland, running clean across it to Dexter. Upon the eastern part of it are School No. 2 and a cemetery near it, School No. 8 exactly in the middle of town, and another cemetery a little south of it on the westward. Passing this graveyard is a road through from Piscataquis to the mill pond a little west of Garland village, which forks a mile and quarter below the county line, and runs southeast into a north road leading to Garland post-office. Upon the cross-road is School No. 10, at the terminus of another highway going north and into Dover. The other north and south road passes straight through Garland post-office and southward and south-eastward by School No. 7 out into Exeter. Through West Garland another southeastward road courses down from the central road into Dexter, starting near the town line, and also goes into Exeter. At the south end of the village it sends a road straight across to School No. 3, at the south end of Garland post-office. The shorter neighborhood roads have been laid out in Garland with usual number and convenience.