Elberta, Alabama is 22 miles W of
Pensacola, Florida and 151 miles E
of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Elberta was founded in 1905 by the
Baldwin County Colonization Company.
Around the turn of the century,
immigrants from many regions of the
United States and from other
countries began populating
Baldwin
County: Italians settled in
Daphne, Scandinavians in Silverhill,
Germans
in Elberta, Poles in Summerdale,
Greeks in Malbis Plantation, and
Bohemians in Robertsdale,
Summerdale, and Silverhill.
Honoring
The Town of Elberta, on the Occasion of Its
100th Anniversary
The site
for Elberta was initially chosen by three German
businessmen--Alexander Klappenback, F.W. Herdrick, and Henry
Bartling--who had journeyed to Baldwin County from Chicago,
Illinois, for the purpose of creating a German settlement.
The Baldwin County Colonization Company was created in
November, 1903, to develop this settlement in an area along
Perdido Bay known as the "Elberta District.''
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