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City welcome Chamber welcome History Location/transportation Education Business and industry Library Recreation Leslie C. Peltier Dining, lodging and shopping Preserving history Healthcare Index of advertisers 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 15 18 23

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Delphos
Population in July 2013: 7,101 Males: 3,312 (49.0%) Females: 3,453 (51.0%) Median resident age: 35.9 years Estimated median household income: $41,167 Estimated per capita income: $19,995 Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $85,800 The latitude is 40.843N; longitude is -84.341W. Elevation is 774 feet.

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Welcome to Delphos! Our city is located in Northwest Ohio along the US30 corridor. US30, previously known as Lincoln Highway, was the first trans-continental highway in the United States and helped Delphos prosper. The Miami-Erie Canal was also instrumental in the development of Delphos and runs through the heart of our city. The same work ethic and perseverance that it took to build the canal and the Lincoln Highway is still evident in Delphos today. Our forefathers worked in the face of much adversity and many hardships to establish this wonderful place that we now call home. That is why we are all very proud of Delphos and of our heritage. Our churches, schools, businesses and organizations are second to none and stand as a testament to our founders. Whenever our citizens are called on to lend a hand, there is always an abundance of volunteerism and good will toward many worthwhile causes. Delphos has also positioned itself for future progress with our new reservoir and water treatment plant and our state-of-the-art membrane waste water treatment plant. We invite you to learn more about our city, so please call, e-mail, or visit our web site, and see why Delphos is known as Americas Friendliest City. We look forward to meeting you! Thank You! Mayor Michael Gallmeier 419-695-4010 cityofdelphos.com

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The Delphos Area Chamber of Commerce is continually striving to serve the businesses and residents of this great city. The Chamber is a member-based organization, independent of all other organizations and groups, and committed to promoting the overall economic growth of our local economy. We are currently over 230 members strong including small business, large industry and individuals. As the new Executive Director I am excited to see what lies ahead. I have taken steps to focus our efforts on promoting the businesses in and around our community. We offer a wide array of programs and services to our membership. In addition, we are a resource center providing information to visitors and those who are relocating, both residential and commercial. The strong work ethic, commitment, and values of the people in this area are the reason why Delphos is a great place to work, live, and do business. I invite you to take a deeper look into our programs and benefits to see if we can assist your business. Whether you would like to join our Chamber for a stronger community image, discounts, or promotional and networking opportunities, I know we can be of value to your business. On behalf of the Delphos Area Chamber of Commerce, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Americas Friendliest City. Please visit us anytime at www. delphoschamber.com. We look forward to working with you! Thank You! Tara Krendl Executive Director Delphos Area Chamber of Commerce 419-695-1771 [email protected]

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History
Delphos has the distinction of being situated in two counties. The Miami and Erie Canal divides it into two nearly equal portions. The part east of this canal lies in Allen County, and the part west is within Van Wert County. In 1840, when the first vote was taken in Washington Township, only 10 votes were cast, and Thomas W.

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Bowdle was elected justice of the peace. The first plat of the town was made by Ferdinand Bredeick, on the west side of the canal, and the Rev. John Otto Bredeick, coming a couple of years later, laid out the addition on the east side of the canal. John was a Roman Catholic priest, and reserved a large plat of ground for church pur-

poses. He gave this as a free gift. For a number of years, early Delphos was known as East Bredeick and West Bredeick. There were a couple of other little settlements, which were known respectively as: Section Ten and Howard Town. The two former being settled by Germans and the other (See History page 19)

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Delphos is geographically located within easy access to both interstate and intrastate highway systems. US 30, which is a four lane expressway mirroring the historic Old Lincoln Highway, bounds the north of the community connecting Delphos with I-69 to the west, and I-75, I-71 and I-77 to the east. State highway systems that connect Delphos to the region include Old Route 30 (Lincoln Highway), State Routes 309, 66, 190 and 697, making Delphos truly the Crossroads to America. Also serving the city are two railroads. A small airport is located just east of the city.

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Delphos supports two school systems. Delphos City Schools enrollment totals an average of 1,1o0 students, including kindergarten and special education classes. The city schools were rated Excellent with Distinction on the 2012-13 State Report Card. The high school offers post-secondary options and advanced placement courses. The parochial school system, Delphos St. Johns, enrolls nearly 960 and includes grades preschool-12. St. Johns Schools aim to allow each student and faculty member to live the life of Christ today through spiritual,

academic, athletic and social goals. The school focuses on faith development and academic excellence and believes its important to nurture the whole person, so that they might grow into a wellbalanced, mature adult who sees how they might use their gifts and talents for their own betterment, as well as for their community and world. They strive to make the school a tradition worth keeping by the interrelation of school, family and community. Both schools enjoy successful sports programs. Nine college and business and technical school campuses are within a short driving distance.

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Business and industry

There are several manufacturers and processors located in Delphos, including grain elevators, printing and publishing house, electroplaters, tool and die shops, automatic screw machine products, quarries, fertilizer plants, food processors,

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The Delphos Public Library

The Delphos Public Library, located at 309 W. Second Street, is a valued and important part of the Delphos community. Besides providing a wide array of books, the library also provides a large number of services that appeal to every age group.

Open since 1912, the library now offers ebooks, videos, DVDs, puppet, CDs and audio books, as well as large print books, travel maps and folders and periodicals. The Genealogy Room offers Ancestry. com and contains various historical records,

periodicals converted to microfilm and a microfilm reader. The library offers various after-school events such as arts and crafts, educational programs and movie days to keep children involved and give them an opportunity to make friends.

Also offered is homework help in a range of subjects. The library is open from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. until noon on Saturdays.

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Delphos has a very fine recreation program. Facilities include four public parks with a total of 52 acres. A large municipal swimming pool, 10 tennis courts, basketball courts, football stadium, shelter houses, playgrounds, many baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and horseshoe courts can be found here. There is also a bowling center, soccer fields, 18-hole golf course, an all-weather track and excellent fishing and boating facilities nearby. The newly-constructed DelphosGillmor Reservoir offers a place for walkers, sledding in the winter and fishing (no gasoline motors) in the spring, summer and fall. The Miami-Erie Canal is home to two annual fishing derbies and yearround fishing.

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Delphos home of stargazer Leslie Peltier

Leslie Peltier was born on a small farm east of Delphos on Jan. 2, 1900. Growing up on a farm surrounded by forests and bordered by the Auglaize River, Leslie quickly acquired an appreciation and love of nature and the natural world. His introduction to the night sky occurred at age five when his mother introduced him to the Pleiades on a crisp, clear, winter night. A book from a kindly librarian brought the rest of the universe into focus and Leslies quest for knowledge of the night sky took off. As a teen Leslie earned $18 for a mail order telescope by picking 900 quarts

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of strawberries on his fathers farm, earning two cents per quart. The 2i refractor arrived a few weeks later and 64 continuous years of night time observing began. Four years of sweeping the night sky for comets finally came to fruition on Friday, November 13, 1925. Leslie came upon a fuzzy something in a cluster of stars. He focused in on this something and saw it had the trademark tail of a comet. Exhilarated, Leslie carefully plotted the location and telephoned the Delphos telegram station. Finding

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it closed and his only option the signal tower at the Pennsylvania Railroad station, Leslie raced toward Delphos in the dark on his bicycle. The telegram of his find to the Harvard College Observatory was answered a week later with the news that he had, indeed, discovered a new comet. Merry Go Round Observatory In November 1933 ,Leslie married Dorothy Nihiser. The Peltiers set up their household first in Leslies uncles house and later in a small house in Delphos. It was in 1937 that Leslie used his skill as a designer at the Delphos Bending Company to design and build his ground-breaking Merry-GoRound observatory. For the first time an entire observatory rotated to follow the stars. This new observatory followed the Peltiers to their new home, Brookhaven, in 1948. In 1959, Stanley Peltier, Leslie and Dotties youngest son, was a student at Miami University in Oxford. During renovation the universitys observatory was scheduled to be razed. Stanley convinced the university that his father could use the observatory and its 12i refractor telescope. Within a few months, the observatory was erected about 100 yards north of the Peltier home at Brookhaven. For the next 20 years the observatory would scour the night sky and host thousands of interested stargazers and school children. Leslie Peltier died of a heart attack in 1980. His death was mourned by all across the astronomy world. His hometown of Delphos honored his life with a memorial sun dial, above, on the grounds of the public library, where he served on the board for more than 30 years.

Shopping, dining, lodging

Delphos offers a variety of shops. Downtown Delphos is full of family-owned shops including a womens boutique, mens wear store, gift shop, photography studio, jewelry store, party shop, hardware stores, sporting goods store and coin shop to name a few. Delphos offers a wonderful variety of dining experiences. Local residents share their heritage in creating unique Greek, German, Chinese and American foods. Homemade pastries, bread and soups are also available. If you enjoy Italian foods, pizza or subs, Delphos can fit the bill with a variety of choices and tastes to fit every palette. Delphos recently became home to a Microtel Inn & Suites providing lodging for visitors and family for weddings, family reunions and any social or business event. The facility also has two meeting rooms.

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Microtel Inn & Suites

Delphos also offers several rental facilities and catering for any event with small-town hospitality with all the big-town appeal.

Preserving history

Downtown is home to the citys two museums: The Delphos Canal Commission Museum and the Delphos Museum of Postal History. The Canal Museum houses the citys historical memorabilia. The Postal Museum chronicles the postal services history.

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Each Year, the Delphos Rotary Club sponsors the Concert in the Park Series at Stadium Park. Hundreds of listeners gather near The Hanser Pavilion the second and fourth Sundays June August to hear a variety of offerings.

Canal Days
Delphos plays host to the premiere area fall festival Canal Days the third weekend in September. The four-day event starts with the Toast to the City and concludes with a 100-plus entry parade and Big Ticket Drawing. Battle of the Business, childrens activities, a car show, area bands and more fill out the extended weekend.

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Healthcare
Delphos is afforded with an ambulatory care center, two nursing homes, a rehabilitation center, two physical therapy offices, several general practitioners and dentists and a pediatrician. St. Ritas Ambulatory Care Center offers urgent care, outpatient services and specialty physi-

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cian clinics to the people of Allen, Putnam and Van Wert counties. The center accepts appointments for the following services or tests: gastroenterology OB/GYN orthopedics podiatry urology Vancrest Health

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opened in 1875, and was completed to Toledo three years later. It is now known as the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad. This was at first a narrow gauge railroad, but the track was afterward standardized. To Father Bredeick was due

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the building up of the first Roman Catholic congregation. He gave to it the splendid site now occupied by the church edifice. A log chapel first served the small town, but a more pretentious church was begun in 1846. In that same year, the Methodists held their first services, in the cabin of R. M. Petticord, at which five persons were present. Rev John Graham officiated as minister. When E. N. Marlen, an ordained min-

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ister, came to Section Ten in 1848, he facilitated the building of the church. A couple of years later the foundation stone was laid. The Presbyterian Church was organized about the same time by Rev. Richard Graham. The congregation was very small, and a church edifice was not begun for almost a score of years, as the congregation had been decimated, first by a scourge of cholera and afterward by the Civil War.

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238 North Main Street, Delphos, Ohio

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Advantage Cleaners.............................................. 20 Bebout and Houg.................................................. 10 Best One Tire & Service....................................... 22 Black Swamp Antiques & Antique Mall. .............. 22 Chik-N-House....................................................... 14 City of Delphos/Delphos Chamber......................... 6 Coins, Currency & Collectibles............................ 22 Combs & Company.............................................. 16 Community Health Professionals......................... 18 Delpha..................................................................... 3 Delphos Trading Post............................................ 23 Dicks Steak House............................................... 17 Dilly Door Co....................................................... 17 First Federal Bank................................................. 13 Fort Jennings Communication.............................. 17 Greve....................................................................... 7 Grothouse Plumbing & Heating Inc..................... 11 Harter and Schier Funeral Home.......................... 10 Kostas Topp Chalet.............................................. 12 Lehmanns Furniture . .......................................... 11 Marsh Foundation................................................... 8 Pats Donuts & Kreme.......................................... 10 Ottoville Bank Company...................................... 14 Raabe Ford............................................... Back Page Reliable Plumbing & Heating............................... 17 Roselawn Manor................................................... 19 Sarah Jane............................................................. 19 Sidney Electric ..................................................... 21 Tech Guy Solutions............................................... 17 Van Wert Area Convention and Visitors Bureau... 17 Vancrest................................................................. 18 Westrich Furniture & Appliances. ......................... 10

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