Jones County Texas Archives - Pleasant Valley Community *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 19 January 2020 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford American Thursday, July 28, 1927 Pleasant Valley Community Develops Rapidly Pleasant Valley School District No. 43 has outstanding bonding indebtedness of $2,550.00. The valuation of the district is $151,500.00. The local tax rate is 50c. The bond tax rate is 25c. The area of the district is 16 square miles. The building is located 9 miles east of Stamford. The trustees are U.P. Jarred, R.L. West and E.A. McBride. The teachers are Misses Ola Bell Simms and Ora Bailey. In the year 1903 the people and trustees of Avoca district saw the need of a school in the north part of the district, so those most interested donated money to build a room 16 feet by 14 feet with eight-foot walls. This building was known locally as the Jackson School. For five years there were only about 16 pupils. In 1908 a larger building was erected on the same site. In 1914 the location of the school house was changed to a new site and one-half miles south of the first site. Later a bond issue was voted and a modern building with three rooms was erected. Messrs. J.W. Jackson, Dave Gillespie, W.M. Turner, Dave Decker, D.T. Morrell, W.S. West and Weatherby were the first farm owners and school patrons of the district, and made up the entire population east of Stamford to Albany and south to Avoca at the time, the first building was erected in 1903. About 80 percent of this district is in cultivation. There is as much contrast between the present farm homes as in the increase of population since 1903. When the school house was moved to its present location near the center of the district Messrs. Jackson Decker and Ohlson decided that Pleasant Valley would be a suitable name and a better name than Jackson school house, hence the school name; however, the school is yet locally known as Jackson school. Messrs. W.M. Carlton, Charley Carlton, J.W. Jackson and T.E. Ohlson all make a good yearly profit on sales of poultry and livestock aside from farm crops grown. Several other families not only supply their needs as to poultry but make noticeable yearly profits.