Several decades after Pike County was formed and almost seventy years after Arkansas became a state, Delight became an incorporated town.

The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Quapaw Indians, a tribe of the great Dakotas who at one time had a population of many thousands.

By the end of the eighteenth century, white settlers had begun making their homes near the banks of Wolf Creek.

Some of the earliest residents of the area were the Kirkhams, Kelleys, Dixons, Dosses, Carpenters, Dosseys, Mobleys, Wards, Greens, Lambs, Reeves, Griffins, Clingmans, Wilsons, and Hancocks.

In the 1833 Territorial Papers of the United States proposals for mail contracts in Arkansas Territory, Wolf Creek was identified as a mail stop between Little Rock and Hempstead County Courthouse, which was in Washington at that time.

This land remained in the Mobley family until 1860 when the heirs to David Mobley, then deceased, granted to convey their rights, titles, and interest to William H. Kirkham, his son in law, for the sum of $800.

The Pike County Court Record B, page 413, contains the proceedings for the incorporation Delight.

Key built a large hotel to accommodate the drummers who descended on the town to sell their wares to the rapidly expanding business district.

Some of the early merchants were A. E. Westbrook, C. E. Reid, Bose and Jim Bratton, and the Geiser brothers.

Antoine, a neighboring town 5 miles away, had shared its Kirkham with the community of Delight for a number of years.

After Rice, Rodgers moved to Delight from Mississippi and practiced medicine for several years.

Other doctors who gave unstintingly of their time were Walls, Newt Slaughter, Joe Thomasson, W. P. Hemby, and B. S. Stokes.

When the depression hit in 1930, Delight, like, all other towns and cities across the nation, became paralyzed with fear.

New housing projects were completed and for the second time Delight became a thriving mill town.

[5] The Delight High School mascot was a bulldog and colors are blue and gold.

[citation needed] Delight High School was suddenly closed in 2010 for lack of students.