Pleasant Valley School at Hills Creek

Pleasant Valley School at Hills Creek

ca. 1900

Students and Teachers in front of the Pleasant Valley School, also know as Hills Creek School. One-room school constructed of hand-hewn logs was built by a Mr. Isbell near Lobelia, W.Va. It was in use by sometime in the 1890’s and it closed in 1942. A search of The Pocahontas Times gives this description by Editor Calvin W. Price in the April 28, 1938 issue: “The Hills Creek school house is the last log school house that I know of in Pocahontas County. I believe the official name is Pleasant Valley School. If so, I say it is well named. High-forested mountains hem in three sides of the narrow green valley, with the rocky bed of a swift flowing trout stream but a few yards from the school house door.”

Lobelia, W.Va.

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