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Once a tiny flag stop of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, what is now Elgin, was then (in 1871) called Glasscock.\u00a0 Situated in Bastrop and Travis Counties, Elgin is often called the sausage capital of Texas and the brick capital of\u00a0 the Southwest U.S.\u00a0 Two of the three brickyards operating in Elgin are still open today.<\/p>\n
Elgin was incorporated in 1872 and a year later a post office was built.\u00a0 Elgin became known as a depot town and by 1879 with a population of 400 people, was said to be \u201cthriving\u201d.\u00a0 There were 4 cotton gins, a gristmill, newspaper office, general stores, a saloon and two drug stores by this time and then churches began to pop up in the area.\u00a0 The presence of quality clay deposits in and around Elgin were the start of the first brick making company in the early 1940\u2032s and by the mid-50\u2032s two others had opened along with a sausage factory.<\/p>\n