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PEAR VALLEY,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost Town
McCulloch County, Texas Hill Country
FM 504
16 miles NW of Brady
Population
37 (1990)
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A closed store in Pear Valley
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, Jan. 2006 |
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History
in a Pecan Shell
The town began
life early in the 20th Century as a loosely formed community under
the western-sounding name of Saddle Creek. In 1910 the town
applied for a post office under the more prosaic name of Pear Valley.
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Cornerstone
of Pear Valley School
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, Jan. 2006 |
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Pear Valley School ruins
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, Jan. 2006 |
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Ghost
sign of the store
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, Jan. 2006 |
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| The population
is recorded as being 45 from the 1930s through the early 1960s when
it suddenly dropped to a mere 20 in 1964. It has since regained some
of that loss and in 1990, it was given as 37. |
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"My
Dad drove a fuel truck during the late 1930's... We hauled fuel from
the refinery in Coleman to the farmers in the Pear Valley community."
- Johnye Slaughter |
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Pear Valley
Texas Forum
The store and
school was very interesting. I was raised in Pear Valley and my
Dad had a garage there after WWII. I went to school there from 1941
thru 1948. Went to school in Lohn the year of 1948-49 and we moved
to Melvin where I went to high school. Can tell you many stories
of happenings around Pear Valley. My mom ran the switchboard in
Pear Valley some during the war. My Moms folks had a farm 1/2 mile
north of Pear Valley. His name was Leon Browning. My Grandma would
fry chicken for the visiting Baptist preacher nearly every Sunday.
Mr. White owned the store and he was the finest man you would ever
meet. My Dad drove a fuel truck during the late 1930's. I have a
picture of his old truck with him and me standing beside it. We
hauled fuel from the refinery in Coleman
to the farmers in the Pear Valley community. - Johnye Slaughter,
March 02, 2006
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