1801 - The first settlement was reported to have been made at Daws Corners by Samuel and Amos Ranger from Vermont. Samuel Clark and his son, Samuel, of Massachusetts also settled here in 1802.
1803 - The first deed ever issued by the Holland Land Company occurred on July 22, to John Young of Rockingham County, Virginia. He and his wife Peggy purchased 102 acres on the Oak Orchard Road for $202. There he opened a tavern in a little log house he had built.
1802 - Betsey White, daughter of Aaron White, was the town’s first birth.
1804 - The first death was that of a Revolutionary soldier, David Kingsley, who, with his wife Patience (Woods) and brother Phineas, had come from Becket, Massachusetts.
The first physician in town was Dr. Daniel Woodward.
1810 - Horace Gibbs erected the first sawmill on a branch of Spring Creek in the eastern part of town.
1811 - The first school was “Gifford Hill” at the house of J.W. Gardner. Mason Turner was the first teacher.
1815 - Comfort Smith erected the first gristmill.
1815 - Stephen Harmon established the area’s first inn.
1819 - Samuel Laing was credited with being the first storekeeper at Pine Hill as well as the town’s first blacksmith
1820 - Town of Elba formed.
1824 - Elba’s first shoe and boot making business opened at Daws Corners.
1884 - Village of Elba was incorporated.
1896 - First free Rural Mail Delivery in New York state started in Elba.
1903 - Elba Telephone Company was incorporated.
1915 - Elba mucklands opened with the draining of the swamp.
