Buttercup
Buttercup, a rural community located a few miles south of Cedar Park, was settled primarily by the Dodd, McRae, and Crumley families. Also known as the Doddborro and Doddville, Buttercup had a cotton gin, store and post office. The McRaes were farmers, Dr. Crumley was the local physician, and the Dodds owned a farm and grocery store.
Though rock had been quarried in the area since the 1850's, the business blossomed in 1897 when Cedar Park because the heaviest freight loader between Austin and Llano. Russel Allan of Alabama married Rosie E. King of Bagdad in 1895 and bought 100 acres adjoining the Cluck property. In two years a Mr. Burns leased the land and operated a quarry on their land, using stone for a structure Burns & Associates were building in Austin. Meanwhile, Emmett Cluck operated his own quarry on the Cluck property. The limestone quarried in Cedar Park was shell stone, the only source in America, and was shipped throughout the country. Stone from these quarries was used to build several famous buildings around Texas.
