 Secondly, two young brothers had bought a small plot of land here named "Glen Elgin" in 1903, where they grew vegetables.The Molteno brothers were partially responsible for revolutionising the region's deciduous farming industry and, in an unusual move in the 1950s, they ordered that their vast "Glen Elgin" farming enterprise was to be divided up and returned ""...to Elgin's farmworkers and inhabitants for their own use.