Village Historian

More than once in my 50 years of experience with gravestones and cemeteries, someone has told me they discovered an abandoned gravestone. The first one for me was a Coffin Man gravestone. If you’re not familiar with Coffin Man and the Coffin Group of gravestone carvers and would like to know more, please email me at historian@villageofdelhi.com.

Around 1996 I received a call from the director of DCHA, Liz Callahan, telling me someone had found an intact gravestone… Read More

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