Site of Valley View School

Valley View lay on Wolf Creek in northeast Mitchell County, and the school took its name from the landscape. By 1930 it had 105 students, and its district covered seventeen square miles. In 1936 the community still had a church, a school and one business; by 1947 only the church remained. The district was discontinued in 1942 and divided between Buford and Loraine, and county maps of the 1980s showed the rural community with no active businesses.

What the plaque says

Site of Valley View School In 1905 nine men from the Lone Wolf Valley adopted plans for a community school. Named Valley View by S.H. Hart, it began under the direction of eighteen-year-old Aury Williams, the first teacher. Edmond Seymour donated land at this site for a one-room schoolhouse, constructed by W.D. McCarley, T.J. Coffee, A.J. Compton, J.B. Cranfill, J.H.T. Johnson, Billie Seymour and Willie Seymour. The building was also used as a community center. The Valley View School continued to serve the surrounding rural area until 1942, when it was consolidated with the Loraine District. (1982)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heart of West Texas Museum — 8.8 mi
  Colorado City's museum in a restored downtown house, from a mammoth dug up at Lake Champion in 2001 to an Ice Age bison and the wartime telegrams sent to a local family.
• Lake Colorado City State Park — 15 mi
  A mesquite-plains park on a lake built in 1949 to cool a power plant, southwest of Colorado City, where controlled burns are bringing back the grassland and 300 bird species pass through.
• Scurry County Museum — 15 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• National WASP WWII Museum — 18 mi
  Hangar 1 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, where the women of the WASP trained to fly every aircraft in the Army's arsenal in World War II, then waited thirty-three years to be called veterans.

More markers nearby

• Lone Wolf Community — 3.6 mi
• First State Bank — 6.9 mi
• R.C. (Dick) Ware — 7.9 mi
• William Marion Green — 7.9 mi