Editing Elbe, Washington (section)

==Etymology==
Known as Brown's Junction<ref name="EMCSG">{{cite news |last1=Sexton |first1=Owen |title=Elbe Market Country Store's giant new Bigfoot statue welcomes visitors to the 118-year-old building |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/elbe-market-country-stores-giant-new-bigfoot-statue-welcomes-visitors-to-the-118-year-old,340904 |access-date=May 28, 2024 |work=[[The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington)]] |date=May 24, 2024}}</ref> after the Tacoma & Eastern Railway was built in the region, there are similar but competing theories on the change of the community's name to Elbe. When a post office was requested, a shorter name was demanded and a meeting of settlers decided to honor the pioneer settler Henry C. Lutkens who had come from the valley of the [[Elbe]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Meany |first= Edmond S. |author-link= Edmond S. Meany |year= 1918 |title= Origin of Washington Geographic Names |journal= The Washington Historical Quarterly |volume= X |page= 122 |publisher= Washington University State Historical Society |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PLsUAAAAYAAJ |access-date=June 11, 2006}}</ref> Another hypothesis suggests the settlers of the area, whom hailed as a group from the Elbe Valley, derived the moniker based on the similarities of the [[Elbe]] and the [[Nisqually River]]s.<ref name="EMCSG"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/stream/originofwashingt0000mean#page/76/mode/2up |title=Origin of Washington Geographic Names |editor=Edmond S. Meany |date=1923 |page=77 |access-date=July 20, 2017 |language=de}}</ref>