PLEASANT VALLEY, TEXAS (Garza County). Pleasant Valley is a small community in northwestern Garza County on Farm Road 399 near U.S. Highway 84, eight miles northwest of Post. The town was founded around 1906, and a school district was established in 1914. In 1936 Pleasant Valley had a school, two businesses, a factory, and a few scattered dwellings. By the early 1980s all that remained of the community was a church, one business, and a few houses. No population estimates were available.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Garza County Historical Survey Committee, Wagon Wheels: A History of Garza County, ed. Charles Didway (Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer, 1973).
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