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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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