Delhi, Texas

The community is rich in fine sandy loam soils that make agriculture and livestock feasible to raise. A post office was established at Delhi in 1873, and remained in operation until 1929. A Primitive Baptist church was established in 1880, and a permanent cemetery was established a year later. Delhi had two gristmills and two cotton gins as well as 150 inhabitants. It reached 200 settlers by 1890, but it then decreased to 30 settlers when a general store opened in Delhi in 1925. The 1936 county highway map showed several scattered houses, a church, a cemetery, and only one business in the settlement. The population declined to 25 in 1940. A community center has been in operation since 1951, in the building that was formerly the one room school house. It is said to be named for a medicine man who traveled to the community and stayed there for several months in the late 19th century. A church, a cemetery, volunteer fire department and the community center marked the community even though it is not labeled on county maps. Its population was estimated as 300 in 2000.[2]

Delhi stands along Farm to Market Road 304 19 mi (31 km) southeast of Lockhart in eastern Caldwell County.[2]

Delhi had two schools, one in 1884 and another in 1936.[2] Today the community is served by the Lockhart Independent School District.