McDuff, Texas

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McDuff is a ghost town in Bastrop County, Texas. It was located about eight miles southwest of Elgin, twelve miles northwest of Bastrop, and 25 miles east of Austin, along an old stage mail route from Bastrop to Austin. Today the site sits near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 969 and Upper Elgin River Road. A post office operated in McDuff from 1886 to 1906, with James A. Wood as the first postmaster. In the 1890s the town had about 30 residents, a general store, and a saloon. A one-teacher school with 19 students was noted in 1905. In 1907 the county created school districts and a district school was located in McDuff; the school merged into the Elgin Independent School District in 1949. The town disappears from county highway maps in the 1940s. The McDuff Cemetery is now known as the J J Manor Cemetery, located on the Travis County side of the Travis–Bastrop county line.