Since 1973, all incorporated towns were declared officially to be ‘cities’ by an act of the Minnesota Legislature. Ever wonder about those ‘little cities’? This series of 100 waymarks will take you to all corners of the great state of Minnesota to visit the 100 smallest of the incorporated cities in the state. All have a great story to tell.
This is the 15th of 100 of the cities described in the book LITTLE MINNESOTA. The first settler, Carl Simondet, after a stint with the Mounted Rangers fighting in the Dakota War, arrived in Delhi in 1865. A tough pioneer, Mr. Simondet survived prairie fires, the grasshopper plague of 1873-1879 and the monster blizzard of 1873. A hardy group of Scots also toughed it out on their farms during this period, pushing the population to 186 by 1880.
Delhi was named by Alfred M. Cook, builder and owner of a flour mill in nearby Redwood Falls, who came from Delhi, Ohio, a town near Cincinnati. The city was platted in 1884 and was incorporated in 1902. The city is currently the home to 70 persons.
This series of waymarks is tuned to getting people to visit these wonderful small communities before they disappear completely. To validate your ‘find’, please post a photo of you with your GPS at the coordinates and please relate a little tidbit about what you learned about the town and its people that is not in this narrative or the book. You can learn more about ‘LITTLE MINNESOTA’ by logging on to (
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