PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL, NO. 14, 1876--

 Pleasant Valley "was a school established in 1876*, and named by Daniel Babb, a Baptist preacher and an uncle of Mrs. Broce Oglesby, who attended school there when she was seven years old. Pleasant Valley probably got its name from the view."  [*According to the  Hamilton County School Annual, 1936, the first school at Pleasant Valley was built in 1860.  Other sources place Daniel Babb at Pleasant Valley in 1877--but not in 1876.   The third school established in Hamilton County was the one taught by J. Griffith in his home near Leon River east of Hamilton,  Griffith was killed by Indians 9 February, 1860, thus ending the school.] 

The first school was a windowless one room log cabin with  a fireplace across one end. About 1896 the log school was replaced with a wooden structure which was remodeled in 1921. 

A second room was added in 1925. Pleasant Valley provided instruction for students in seven grades in 1911. In 1924-25 Owen Dutton taught in this school and Dennis Payne and J. C. Courtney were on the school board. Teachers in 1936 were Bradley Gardner, principal; and Miss Rose Marie Courtney, and trustees were Albert Greater, Dennis Payne, and Robert Koen.  Owen A. Dutton also taught at Pleasant Valley.

PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 14