Jones County Texas Archives - Pleasant Valley School District - 1927 *********************************************************** 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 AmericanThursday, June 23, 1927Pleasant Valley school district No. 43 has outstanding bonded indebtedness of$2,550.00. The valuation of the district is $161,500.00. The local tax rate is 50c.The bond tax is 25c. The area of the district is 16 square miles. The building islocated 23 miles northeast of Anson and 9 miles east of Stamford. The trustees areU.F. Jarred, R.L. West, and E.A. McBride. The teachers are Misses Ola Bell Simms andOra Bailey.In the years 1903 the people and trustees of Avoca district saw the need of a schoolin the north part of the district, so those most interested donated money to build aroom 16 feet by 14 feet with eight-foot walls. This building was known locally as theJackson School. For five years there were only 16 pupils. In 1908 a larger buildingwas erected on the same site. In 1914 the location of the school house was changed toa new site one and one-half miles south of the first site. Later a bond issue wasvoted and a modern building with three rooms were 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, andmade up the entire population east of Stamford to Albany and south of Avoca at thetime the first building was erected in 1903.About 80 percent of this district is in cultivation. There is as much contrastbetween the present farm homes as in the increase of populations since 1903.When the school house was moved to its present location near the center of thedistrict Messrs. Jackson, Decker and Ohlson decided that Pleasant Valley would be asuitable 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 goodyearly profit on sales of poultry and livestock aside from farm crops grown. Severalother families not only supply their needs as to poultry but make noticeable yearlyprofits.