Pleasant Valley School

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PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL

Brochure 57A in Hugo's Pioneers Brochure Series

Just North of the 1.5 mile Applegate Trail Nomination to Federal Register of Historic Places

May 12, 2008
by
Hugo Neighborhood Association
Historical Society
Josephine County Historical Society
Rogue Advocates

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Pleasant Valley School Students With
Teacher Esther Ludwick: 1929 - 1930

Pleasant Valley Prairie

1865 Solomon Abraham Cash Entry Solomon purchased 160 acres under Cash Entry No. 662 in Josephine County, Oregon. It was issued August 15, 1865 to Solomon Et. Al. Abraham.^{1 - 3} This is the earliest cash entry sale in Hugo, except for the year before by Samuel Trimble. The 1865 Abraham Cash Entry would eventually become the site of the Pleasant Valley School close to the Neely children’s graves.

1895 An "E. F." Neely identified on the 1895 Josephine County map was the owner of almost 600 acres where the Neely children and Trimbles’ graves are located adjacent to the northern boundary of today’s Pleasant Valley Cemetery (PVC).⁴

Pleasant Valley Prairie Most of Solomon’s purchase was also prime agricultural land identified as a prairie in the 1856 General Land Office Field survey notes.⁵ The prairie later became known as the Pleasant Valley Prairie.

Pleasant Valley School: ca., 1890s - 1920s

1893 GLO Field Note: Applegate Trail JA-9 & Prairie⁵

Pleasant Valley JA-9 54 Chains

Chains
43.50 Enter Prairie & Bank bottom
54.00 Road to Jacksonville c NE & SW
60.00 leave Prairie & Enter trees NW&SE
65.25 to Jump off Jo branch 30 Lks wide C SW

1896 The PVC was adjacent to the school. The PVC Association was formally formed by 11 men on May 30, 1896.⁶ The meeting took place in the Pleasant Valley School. The 11 founders of the PVCA read like a "Who’s Who" for the Hugo-Merlin area:

. James Neely . C. D. Sexton
. William Crow . James Wright
. Joseph McCaslin . James McCaslin
. T. Rowe . A. Cole
. James Devaney . George McCormick
. Garrett Crockett

1923 Pleasant Valley is located at the south boundary of Solomon’s cash entry.⁷ The Pleasant Valley School’s location was near the Neely home next to the Neely children’s graves.⁷

Pleasant Valley School Not much is known about the Pleasant Valley School. One teacher was Esther (Ludwick) Hansen.

Pleasant Valley Cemetery (PVC) & PVC Association
July 31, 1928 Sexton Mt. Fire Brought Under Control Grants Pass Daily Courier, July 31, 1928. A working hypothesis is that the school was burnt in this fire.

1932 Pleasant Valley is located next to the Pleasant Valley School's old location at the south boundary of Solomon's cash entry.8

1955 Pleasant Valley is located at the south boundary of Solomon's cash entry.8

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Pleasant Valley School Students With
Teacher Esther Ludwick: ca., 1920's
Courtesy of Vern Ludwick

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1. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records. 2007. Official Federal Land Records Site (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/). Internet.
2. Hugo Neighborhood. 2007. Hugo Pioneers. Map Of Federal Land Transfer in Hugo, Oregon. Hugo, OR.
3. Hugo Neighborhood. 2007. Abrahams: Hugo Pioneers. Map Of Federal Land Transfer in Hugo, Oregon. Hugo, OR.
4. Koch, Joseph , Draughtsman. 1895 Official Josephine County, Oregon. Map. Scale 1 inch = 1 mile. Meston - Dygert Book M’F’G. Portland, OR.
5. General Surveyor Office of Oregon. Subdivision Lines For 1856 Map (T.34., R. 6. W., Willamette Meridian). Field Notes. Surveyor Luke G Hyde. Contract February 19, 1855; Surveyed March 31, 1856.
6. Sexton, Charles, Clerk, PVCA. May 30, 1896. Minutes of Meeting At Which PVCA was formed. Hugo, OR.
7. USGS Quadrangle. Edition of 1904, reprinted 1923. Surveyed 1901 - 1902. Scale 1: 125,000.