Elgin, Texas Elgin, Texas Elgin Courier building Elgin Courier building Location of Elgin, Texas Location of Elgin, Texas Elgin (/ l n/ el-ghin, unlike Elgin, Illinois) is a town/city in Bastrop and Travis Counties in the U.S.
Elgin is also known as the Sausage Capital of Texas and the Brick Capital of the Southwest, due to the existence of three operating brickyards in the mid-20th century (two of which are open to this date).
The City of Elgin owes its existence to a primary flood of the Colorado River in 1869.
Originally, the barns was to have run from Mc - Dade, 10 miles (16 km) east of Elgin, southwest to the Colorado River at a point somewhere between Bastrop and Webberville, then to Austin following the river.
Glasscock was retitled on August 18, 1872, for Robert Morris Elgin, the barns 's territory commissioner, following the practice of naming new barns suburbs after officers of the company. Elgin was established.
Elgin was incorporated, received a postal service the following year, and a Baptist Sunday school began meeting in a private home.
In 1884, Elgin had five general stores, two druggists, three cotton gins, and a saloon; that year, Thomas O'Conner started a brick-making enterprise that eventually led Elgin to adopt the epithet "Brick Capital of the Southwest." In 1885, a group of people met in Elgin to organize a new north-south barns which would run from Taylor, the rail head for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ("Katy") Railroad 16 miles (26 km) to the north, through Elgin to Bastrop, the county seat, 16 miles (26 km) to the south.
The Taylor, Elgin, and Bastrop Railroad was formed in 1886 and began building the line.
Thus, Elgin became the beneficiary of two primary rail lines with eight passenger trains daily, adding to Elgin's company as a shipping point for cotton, wool, and livestock.
By 1890, Elgin had a populace of 1,100 and supported two hotels, a broom factory, two doctors, a dentist, and the Elgin Courier newspaper.
The year 1900 resulted in a bumper crop of cotton and Elgin prospered.
By 1910, Elgin was appreciateing a reconstructionof great prosperity as families from out on the prairie and encircling communities moved to town and assembled nice homes.
By 1940, Elgin was also the site of two big brick and tile plants.
Elgin enterprise was stimulated amid World War II by the adjacency of the army training facility Camp Swift.
In addition to the brick plants, a small-town sausage factory processed thousands of pounds of beef and pork a week; Elgin Hot Sausage continued to appreciate a widespread reputation, and Elgin quickly became the most meaningful agricultural center in Bastrop County.
By the 1980s, adjacency to Austin had begun to attract commuters to Elgin.
In the mid-1980s, the Elgin Courier was still being presented, the sausage had accomplished wider fame, and two brick and tile plants were still in operation.
The Elgin Commercial Historic District: these buildings along Central Avenue are some of the earliest buildings in the district.
The Elgin Commercial Historic District includes 14 town/city blocks of commercial and industrialized buildings.
The Elgin Commercial Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The Elgin Main Street Program provides a range of incentives to building owners such as a discounted paint program, no-charge dumpsters, and no-charge advice on architectural design and restoration.
Elgin became a Texas Main Street town/city in 1990, and in 1999, 2000, and 2001 was chose as a National Main Street Community.
Each year, three metros/cities are chose by the Texas Historical Commission and Anice Read Main Street Center to turn into Main Street Cities.
Elgin is positioned 25 miles (40 km) east of downtown Austin and 18 miles (29 km) north of Bastrop, at the intersection of U.S.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Elgin has a humid subtropical climate, Cfa on climate maps. Elgin is served by the Elgin Independent School District, which covers more than 168 square miles (440 km2) in portions of Bastrop, Lee, Williamson, and Travis Counties, and provides educational facilities and resources to meet the needs of more than 4,000 students as of 2010. Austin Community College opened its ACC Elgin branch in the town/city in 2013. Elgin Post Office Postal Service operates the Elgin Post Office.
Ray Culp, a two-time Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher, also was born in Elgin.
Elgin is host to three different sports for the youth of the improve and encircling area.
Pop Warner football and cheer-leading squads, Elgin Youth Football, and Elgin Youth Soccer Association are available.
The Elgin Major Girls softball team came from behind in the consolation match-up with the team from Tennessee to win third place in the 2006 Softball World Series in Portland, Oregon.
Elgin Little League's Major Girls' softball All-Stars defended their Southwest Region Championship and earned a second straight trip to the World Series in 2007.
The championship game slipped from the Elgin Major girls' hands in a very close game against the undefeated Mattawan Little League team from Michigan, losing 2-0.
Elgin took home the second place title for the 2007 Little League World Series as the Southwest Region champion.
The City of Elgin.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Elgin city, Texas".
Handbook of Texas entry on Elgin Climate Summary for Elgin, Texas "Post office mural rooted in Elgin, art history".
Elgin Courier Retrieved on 2008-11-12.
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City of Elgin official website Elgin Independent School District
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