ghost town
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U.S. state
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of
Texas
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, in the
Texas Hill Country
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, which is part of the
Edwards Plateau
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. It is considered part of the
San Antonio
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Tuff also went by the name of Crockett. A post office, run by Ola Adams, was established at Tuff in 1901 and remained in operation until 1926. Mail would then be re-routed through
Medina
Medina, officially al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (, ), also known as Taybah () and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (), is the capital of Medina Province (Saudi Arabia), Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ...
. By the twenty-first century, Tuff had turned into a ghost town.
During the 1990s, some of the former cabins were restored in an attempt to turn the town into a museum.
Geography
Tuff is located west of
Bandera
Bandera - from a Spanish word meaning - may refer to:
Places
* Bandera County, Texas, U.S.
** Bandera, Texas, its county seat
*** Bandera High School
** Bandera Creek, a river, with its source near Bandera Pass
** Bandera Pass, a mountain pa ...
in western Bandera County.
Education
The community's first school was built in 1883. It joined the Medina Independent School District in 1930. The community continues to be served by the Medina ISD today.