What's in a name: Elgin
Where is it?
Elgin is a borough in the northwestern corner of Concord Township, which is in the southeastern part of Erie County.
What's the story?
Maybe it's because of its remote location. Or maybe it's just the way the name sounds rolling off the tongue.
But at first, Elgin was known as Halltown, thanks to early settler Joseph Hall.
He built a saw and grist mill along Beaver Run, which runs through the area.
The name was later changed to Elgin, and it was established as a borough in 1876.
But the reason for Erie County's "Elgin," which is also a formal cathedral city in Scotland, is not yet known.
-- Lindsey Poisson