Editing Elba, Minnesota (section)

==History==
[[File:Elba City-Town Hall.jpg|thumb|Elba City Hall]]
Elba was laid out in 1856, and named after the island of [[Elba]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n599 582]}}</ref> The city was originally built up chiefly by [[ethnic Germans]] from [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paprock |first1=John-Brian |last2=Paprock |first2=Teresa Peneguy |title=Sacred Sites of Minnesota |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DKUrIf8cz0oC&q=Sacred+Sites+of+Minnesota |access-date=December 31, 2012 |series=Trails Books guide |year=2004 |publisher=Trails Books |location=[[Black Earth, Wisconsin]] |isbn=1931599262 |oclc=54951777 |page=57 }}</ref> A post office was in operation at Elba from 1858 until 1965.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Winona | title=Winona County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=15 August 2015}}</ref>

As a result of the [[2007 Midwest flooding]], the town was flooded when the dikes holding back the [[Whitewater River (Minnesota)|Whitewater River]] failed on August 18, 2007.<ref>{{cite web| last =Steil| first =Mark| title =The town of Elba mucks out| publisher =Minnesota Public Radio| date =2007-08-22| url =http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/08/22/elbaflood/?rsssource=1| access-date =2007-08-24}}</ref>