Photo for 09/27/2009

The old City Hall in St. Elmo as it looked in 2001…unfortunately when we went back in 2003 it and the building next to it had burnt to the ground destroying all the city documents that have next been copied. St. Elmo was officially founded in October of 1880. It was originally called Forest City because of the abundant amount of evergreen trees at the site. However, since California already had a town by the same name the name was changed to St. Elmo. The new name was derived by Griffith Evans, one of the founders, who was reading a romantic nineteenth-century novel by the same name.