# Duff, Indiana

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**Duff** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Patoka Township](/source/Patoka_Township,_Dubois_County,_Indiana), [Dubois County](/source/Dubois_County,_Indiana), in the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Indiana](/source/Indiana).[2]

## History

Duff was [platted](/source/Plat) in 1883 by Robert Small. It was likely named for Col. B. B. Edmonston, who had the nickname "Colonel Duff".[3]

A post office was established at Duff in 1868, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1955.[4]

## References

1. ["U.S. Census website"](https://www.census.gov). [United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau). Retrieved 2008-01-31.

1. Wilson, George R. (1910). [*History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910*](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E1Q0AQAAMAAJ). Windmill Publications. pp. [367](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E1Q0AQAAMAAJ/page/n261)

1. ["Dubois County"](http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Dubois). Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 17, 2016.

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