On North Main Street (Farm to Market Road 1100) 0.1 miles west of East 11th Street, on the right when traveling west.
After Houston & Texas Central Railroad built through this area in 1871, town was platted (1872) and named for Robert M. Elgin (1825-1913), H.& T.C. Land Commissioner.
Brick and tile, for which Elgin is widely known, have been chief products . . . — — Map (db m205292) HM
On North Main Street, 0.1 miles north of West 2nd Street, on the left when traveling north.
Kentucky native I.B. Nofsinger (1864-1938) came to Texas at the age of 20 and taught school before returning to his home state to study medicine. He was a doctor in McDade (8 Mi. E) prior to moving his practice here. In 1906 he and his wife Mary . . . — — Map (db m205304) HM
On North Avenue B at West 1st Street, on the right when traveling north on North Avenue B.
The Rev. B.B. Sanders assisted citizens of Elgin in organizing this congregation in 1888. Many early members came from surrounding communities. Worship services were held in the Presbyterian Church until the Christian Church sanctuary was built in . . . — — Map (db m205315) HM
On North Avenue C at West 1st Street, on the left when traveling north on North Avenue C.
Chartered June 18, 1870, as Perryville Lodge No. 328, at Perryville (or Hogeye), about 2 1/2 miles south of here. Removed to Elgin in 1877, lodge was renamed in 1901. Its first two Masonic halls were used jointly with public schools. McDade Lodge . . . — — Map (db m205311) HM
On West 3rd Street at North Avenue B, on the right when traveling west on West 3rd Street.
Organized in 1874 as the Elgin Methodist Episcopal Church, South, this was the first congregation started in the town of Elgin. A small frame sanctuary built here in 1882 was replaced by this Gothic revival structure. Built by local contractor J. C. . . . — — Map (db m119483) HM
On North Avenue C at Lexington Road, on the right when traveling north on North Avenue C.
The town of Elgin was founded in 1872 along the route of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad. By 1881 a Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized by the Rev. A.J. Adkisson and 10 charter members. The congregation met in local churches and the . . . — — Map (db m205309) HM
On Pleasant Grove Loop (County Highway 91) 0.7 miles east of Pleasant Grove Road (County Highway 84).
By 1860, a log structure near this site served as a school and church. In 1871, E.E. Smith sold land to trustees of the Pleasant Grove School. The farming and ranching settlement of Pleasant Grove grew, and by 1890, the school served 51 students; . . . — — Map (db m205316) HM
On Farm to Market Road 969, 0.2 miles west of Upper Elgin River Road (County Route 127), on the right when traveling east.
Signer of the Texas
Declaration of Independence
Aide-de-camp to Gen. Houston at
San Jacinto
Commander of a regiment of Rangers
1836-37
Here his widow
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman
and son, Albert V. Coleman
were killed by Indians
and . . . — — Map (db m82688) HM
On Farm to Market Road 619, 2.4 miles north of Farm to Market Road 696, on the left when traveling north.
Prior to 1848, the land around the Yegua Spring, later known as Sam Smith Springs and now Lawhon Springs, was inhabited by Native American tribes. In 1848, the families of John Lewis Smith (1796-1851), and son, Samuel Alexander "Sam" Smith . . . — — Map (db m205339) HM
Born in Tennessee on June 15, 1811. While very young learned the printing trade and worked at it in some of the principal cities of the United States.
Came to Nacogdoches, Texas, in November, 1835, in answer to pleas for volunteers for Texas . . . — — Map (db m176387) HM
On Lund-Carlson Road east of North Lund Road, on the right when traveling east.
First known as Pleasant Hill, this community was settled by Swedish immigrants in the late 1880s. The name of the settlement eventually was changed to Lund in honor of a city in southern Sweden. Under the leadership of the Rev. J.A. Stamline, the . . . — — Map (db m177881) HM
On County Road 480 near Farm to Market Rd, on the right when traveling east.
Settled as early as the 1840s, Post Oak Island was one of this area’s earliest communities. There, on September 15, 1855, I.J. Kidd, T. Gatlin, P.A. Middleton, M. Gardner and A.S. Harper established a Masonic lodge. On February 2, 1856, the lodge . . . — — Map (db m25033) HM
The earliest Anglo settlers of this area came to the vicinity in the 1840s. They called their community Post Oak Island for an isolated oak grove between Bastrop and Circleville. Many of these pioneers had moved on by the time Swedish and Danish . . . — — Map (db m25511) HM