DELAFIELD, a post township in the K. W. central part of Waukesha county, Wisconsin. Population, 1134.
DELAFIELD, a post-village in the above township, 25 miles W. from Milwaukee. It has 2 flouring mills, 4 stores, and 1 machine shop. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
DELAFIELD, Town, in county of Waukesha, being town 7 N., of range 18 E.; centrally located, 9 miles northwest from Waukesha. The population in 1850 was 1,134. It has 5 school districts,
DELAFIELD, P. V., on Bark river, in town of same name in Waukesha county, on section 20. The former great western thoroughfare, from Milwaukee to Madison, passed through this place, but since the completion of the Watertown and Milwaukee plank road, which passes 2-1/2 miles north, the village has lost, in a great degree, the activity and bustle that once characterized it. It has 2 good flouring mills, 1 machine shop, 4 stores, 3 hotels, 3 shoe shops, 3 blacksmiths, 2 cabinet and 2 waggon maker's shops. (John Warren Hunt, Wisconsin Gazetteer..., Madison, 1853)