Delila, Virginia

Delila is a rural unincorporated community in the southwest corner of Halifax County in the U.S. state of Virginia, located on US 360 / US 58 (Philpott Highway) at its intersection with SR 119 (Calvary Road) and SR 694 (Medley Road).

[1][2] Samuel S. Brandon, whose family owned the adjoining estate now called Brandon-on-the-Dan, was postmaster of Delila in the late 1800s, running the mail facility out of his store,[3] a common practice at the time.

Delila continued to be noted as a "post-hamlet" in gazetteers at least as late as the 1920s,[4] although the reference may have been dated – thousands of small rural post offices were closed in the early 1900s after the advent of rural free delivery,[5] many of them within just a few years of opening.

The Delila area is now served by the post office at Alton, Virginia (ZIP code 24520), 9 miles (14 km) east.

The Greater Brandon Chapel Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African American congregation whose building is located 1.5 miles southwest of Delila on SR 767 (Brandon Chapel Road) off Highway 119.

Brandon-on-the-Dan, Delila, VA
Map of Virginia highlighting Halifax County