Village Historian

A friend of mine, Diane Galusha, President of the Middletown Historical Society, recently mailed me this Delhi card. The Delaware Republican newspaper office was in the former Bishop and Hill law office on Main St, where the Lost Bookstore is now. Robert McIntosh, with his wife and children, lived in the apartment over the newspaper office. The eldest girl was Kate and her younger sister was Helen, a very close friend of my mother, Alta McCaffrey. In March 1995 I visited… Read More

I’ve been reading a treatise by John D. Monroe,“The Settlement of Delhi”. Our Delhi story starts in the 1600’s in what the Dutch called New Netherlands, now known as New York State. In 1609 Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River on a ship named the Half Moon, from New York City, then called New Amsterdam, named for the Dutch city of Amsterdam, to Albany, which the Dutch called Fort Orange, named for William of Orange. It was known as The Age of Exploration. Henry claimed… Read More

Many of you know where Phoebe Lane is. Some people drive past it or on it several times a week. The Public Safety Building is at the end of Phoebe Lane. A very pretty name for a street and it’s the only street in the Village of Delhi named for a woman. I believe the street was built circa 1920-1940 but I don’t know the exact date. Maggie Hoag Road is the only road in the Town of Delhi named for a woman, that I’m aware of, but that’s another story.