1840s

Pioneers, primarily the Dodd, McRae, and Crumley families, came here in the 1840s and formed the community of Doddboro. Doddboro was eventually named Doddville, then Buttercup. Buttercup was a community formed in the mid-1800s by Benjamin Thomas "Doc" Crumley and his wife LuLu Riffe Crumley. Doc Crumley was revered throughout the area as an excellent physician and often consulted by doctors in Austin.  Buttercup had a cotton gin, store, and post office.  The former Buttercup town site is located in what is now Lakeline Park, behind the conservation dam just west of US 183 and Avery Ranch Boulevard.  It has been under water since 1959, when the Brushy Creek Water Control and Improvement's District built Dam 6.