Edinburg developed in the mid-1700s as a stagecoach stop. The area was originally called "Assanpink," after the nearby
Assunpink Creek and the
Lenape of
Native Americans of the same name that lived in the area. Numerous Lenape artifacts have been discovered in Edinburg over the centuries, suggesting that the Lenape may have once had a settlement here. In 1703, two Lenape - Hapohucquona and Tolomhon - sold hundreds of acres directly south of the Assunpink Creek, in the Edinburg area, to one of the area's first European colonial landowners: David Lyell. Lyell, in turn, sold much of his tract to the area's first colonial settlers. These early families included the Mounts, Tindalls, Rogers, Hutchinsons, Cubberlys, Grooms, Conovers, Robins, and Hoopers. Around the mid-1800s, they changed the area's name to "Edinburg," reputedly to honor a popular Scottish local. ==References==