DUFFAU

NAME: Duffau COUNTY: Erath ROADS: 2WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: Mild winters, HOT summers BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: Duffau is on Farm Road 1824 and Duffau Creek, fifteen miles southeast of Stephenville in Erath County. REMAINS: The old school house along with the rock gym. Also the Baptist church along with various other old rock buildings and some ruins.

The town was named for Duffo, an Indian buried nearby. By 1860 a post office had been established at the community, and by the mid-1880s Duffau was a flourishing town of about 350 with steam flour mills and cotton gins, four churches, a hotel, a district school, three doctors, and two deputy sheriffs. Railroad routes bypassed Duffau, however, and by the mid-1890s it had begun to decline. In 1940 it was a small trading center with a post office, seven businesses, and 110 residents. By 1980 its population had declined to seventy-six. It was still reported at that level in 2000. Submitted by: Jonathan Lindsey

Duffau Cemetery Courtesy Trina Haynes Interesting Grave Courtesy Trina Haynes

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