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VALLEY VIEW, TEXASRunnels
County, Panhandle
/ West Texas
Where State Highway 158
intersects FM 2111
6 Miles NW of Ballinger
Population: 00022 (2000) |
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Photographer’s
Note: “It was a bait stand when I was last there. Now it is in the process
of returning to being a church.” – Barclay
Gibson, December 2009
History
in Pecan Shell
"Valley
View is a community at the intersection of State Highway 158 and Farm Road 2111,
six miles northwest of Ballinger
in Runnels County.
The Pearce School was built in the area in 1887,
but the community name Valley View originated when a Baptist church by that name
organized in the school in 1908. A schoolhouse was built nearby the next year
and called Valley View. The Pearce and Valley View schools merged in 1920 to establish
Hagen School, named after the first superintendent. The school was destroyed two
different times. In 1922 by a cyclone and in 1932 by a fire. It was rebuilt each
time. In 1942 it was moved near the highway and in 1948 the building was moved
to Ballinger. Local resident
J. A. Patterson helped bring about the moving of a Runnels City church building
to Valley View about 1917. This church consolidated with the Barnett Church in
1946 under the name Valley View.
The 1980 county highway map indicated
one business and a church at the townsite. Nowadays all that remains is empty
buildings and a few memories." -
From "Eighteen
Ghost Towns of Runnels County" by Alton O'Neil Jr. |
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