Looking south on a bustling Main Street at a millinery shop and variety store on the left and the bank on the right with a church steeple in the background. 1911 postmark.
Looking east on Center Street. The town of Elgin was laid out in the fall and winter of 1851-52, by Samuel Connor, M.V. Burdick being the surveyor. Mr. Burdick named it Elgin in honor of Elgin, Illinois his native community. The plat was recorded in 1855. Number 5006.
