Delhi, Caldwell County, TX ~ The Plum Creek Almanac Project

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Delhi ~ ca 1870

Located on Farm Road 304 in eastern Caldwell County, the area was known in the 1860s and 1870s as "String of Prairies". According to stories passed down by old timers, Delhi got its name from a traveling medicine man named Delhi who camped in the area for several months putting on his shows. The first school was organized about 1877 and was being conducted in the Primitive Baptist Church by 1880. A cemetery was also established in 1880 (although there were probably earlier graves). In 1884, two cotton gins thrived in the area. A one-room school built in 1890 was also used as a church and a funeral home for a population of 200. Another school house erected in 1925 now serves as a community center. Population slowly declined and today Delhi no longer appears on official county or state maps.

Source - Plum Creek Almanac Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1987 and Caldwell County Kin: The First 150 Years published by the Genealogical and Historical Society of Caldwell County, November 2000.

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