Delaware Village was founded by John I. Blair in the 1850's as a station on the newly built Warren Railroad in a rural neighborhood first settled circa 1740. Although the station was demolished decades ago, the brick general store Blair erected in 1860 survives and still houses the US Post Office. On Clarence Street stands the now-vacant Episcopal Church, built in 1869 to replace an earlier stone church at nearby Ramsayburg that was destroyed by a fire in 1866 after sparks from a passing steam locomotive ignited it. The former Baptist Church, built of brick between 1835-1838, stands between Ramsayburg and Delaware. A Presbyterian congregation organized in Delaware in 1871 remains active and built a church in 1875 on a lot donated by Blair, and the parsonage was formerly Cornelius Albertson's farmhouse.