Buda is located in Hays County, about fifteen miles South to Southwest of Texas’ capital city of Austin and 65 miles North to Northeast of San Antonio. It’s a relatively small town of roughly fifteen to twenty thousand inhabitants. Considered a suburb of Austin, this little city continues to grow. Buda hasn’t always been Buda. In the 19th century, the International-Great Northern Railroad made plans to extend the railroad from Austin to San Antonio, and as a result, a small settlement sprang up along the railroad by the name of Du Pre. After the addition of a railstop, small businesses sprang up quickly, as did a post office. Not long after establishing a postal service in Du Pre, the United States Postal Service realized that another town had been founded bearing the same name before this one, so they requested that the town change the name. That is when, in 1887, the name of the town was changed to Buda, a somewhat corrupted derivative from the Spanish word for widow, viuda, paying homage to widows who worked in the town’s hotel.