Middletown is located about 24 miles south of Wilmington and about the same distance north of Dover. However, Middletown, as most people think, was not named because it was midway between these two cities but rather because it was midway between Appoquinimink Creek and Bohemia Landing, the Eastern most branch of the Bohemia River. The original roadway between these two ports was the shortest route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, prior to the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

The small town of Mid-town, as it was known in those days, became the rest stop along the way and grew to become one of Delaware's largest towns not on a navigable waterway. Middletown was first surveyed in 1678 and incorporated in 1861 as a one square mile city.

Now, 300 years after the small village of Mid-town was first surveyed, it has grown to become the Middletown that we know today. However, the growth is not over, and the feeling of a quiet and pleasant community is not gone. Middletown Village, one of the newest communities to be built in Middletown, has retained the village community atmosphere. Middletown Village is a planned village community with sidewalks, street lamps, various housing styles, a fishing pond, neighborhood ball fields, neighborhood shopping, hiking paths and almost 140 acres of open space, much of it wooded. Middletown Village is truly a village community of yesterday, with the modern conveniences demanded by today's homeowners.

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