Editing Elfers, Florida (section)

==History==
The area was known as the Baillie settlement until the Elfers post office was established on Dec. 14, 1909. Frieda Marie (Bolling) Eiland, the wife of the first postmaster, chose the name of the post office to honor a favorite uncle, whose last name was Elfers. Railroad service came to Elfers for the shipment of citrus in 1913. In 1915, the Elfers School opened; it was the first brick school in western Pasco County. A new building replaced it in 1966.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/renovations-about-to-begin-on-pascos-old-elfers-school/1196994 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225165910/http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/renovations-about-to-begin-on-pascos-old-elfers-school/1196994 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 25, 2014 |last=Logan |first=Lee |title=Renovations about to begin on Pasco's old Elfers School |newspaper=Tampa Bay Times |date=October 15, 2011 }}</ref> The Elfers School red brick school has been converted into the Elfers CARES Center which celebrated a grand re-opening in 2013. The building now has a cafe, a "spacious auditorium", and is the home of the Avery Branch of the New Port Richey Public Library.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://suncoastnews.com/su/list/suncoast-news-trinity/community-to-welcome-back-redone-elfers-center-b82487279z1 |last=Orth |first=Carl |title=Community to welcome back redone Elfers center |newspaper=The Suncoast News |date=May 7, 2013 |access-date=February 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140219210053/http://suncoastnews.com/su/list/suncoast-news-trinity/community-to-welcome-back-redone-elfers-center-b82487279z1 |archive-date=February 19, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Elfers was incorporated from 1925 to 1933.