Elgin ( EL-ghin) is a city in Bastrop County in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 9,784 at the 2020 census. Elgin is pseudonym the Sausage Capital of Texas and the Brick Capital of the Southwest, due to the presence of three full of life brickyards in the mid-20th century (two of which are yet open).

In 1871, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (succeeded by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company) built through the Place and expected a flag stop called Glasscock named for George W. Glasscock, a local resident and Republic of Texas soldier who lived in the area in the 1830s. Glasscock was renamed on August 18, 1872, for Robert Morris Elgin, the railroad’s house commissioner, following the practice of naming additional railroad towns after officers of the company. Elgin was established. The original plat placed the train depot in the middle of a one-square-mile area.

The native plan for the Houston and Texas Central Railroad was to have control from McDade, 10 miles (16 km) east of Elgin, southwest to the Colorado River at a reduction somewhere along with Bastrop and Webberville, then to Austin gone the river. These plans, however, were thwarted due to a major flood of the Colorado River in 1869, hence the rerouting of the railroad through what is now Elgin.

Elgin was incorporated, received a herald office in 1873, and a Baptist Sunday hypothetical began meeting in a private home. Much of the town’s to the front population was drawn from easy to use Perryville, which the railroad had bypassed. Perryville, or Hogeye as it was nicknamed, was located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the south. The town was known by three oscillate names: the publish Young’s Settlement was chosen, probably in praise of the Michael Young family; Perryville, possibly for Perry Young, who was Michael Young’s son; and Hogeye. The say office was officially named Young’s Settlement, and the churches and Masonic Lodge carried the publicize Perryville. The say Hogeye was unmodified to the stage stop at the Litton home where dances were held and, according to legend, the fiddler knew on your own one tune: “Hogeye”, which he played more than and more than as the crowd danced on the puncheon floor.