 The area was originally part of the Delafield family's estate, which resided there since 1859, when Edward Delafield, from New York City, bought the land.Tory Hole, a cave where Tories and criminal bands called "cowboys" would hide out, is in the Delafield area.The Ku Klux Klan, which preached a doctrine of Protestant control of America and suppression of blacks, Jews and Catholics, had a following in Connecticut and Darien in the 1920s.