Pauls Valley High School - Panther Yearbook (Pauls Valley, OK)

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Between the Washita River The Comanche and Kigvq and RuSh Creek. the g1'8SS Indians, along with soldie grows lush and green. the made the valley betwec trees are tall and stately, the fwg Streams 3 Stgppil and the CFODS, Sl1Ch HS place on their wagon trail pecans, soybeans, and alfalfa, and stage coach line produce until late in the fall, Then, in 1887, when tl Pauls Valley was born with Gulf, Colorado and San' the coming of Smith Paul, Fe Railroad built throug who built a cabin on Rush the territory, the depot wa Creek and established a placed three quarters of homestead. For many years mile north of the origin before it even looked like a boundaries. The Santa l town, this was known as people nailed the sign c Smith Pau1's Valley. the new depot readir Twenty-seven years later, simply Pauls Valley by 1874, a town was begun. And a town was name ' 'S :-W .3 -51:-1, :ig I ' f Ngigtksfgxeg 'assi Rogers and Hammerstein must Proudly displaying one gf his Q., ' ' is have Vlslted fhe VHUGY before champion quarter horses, Kevin '51-tg, , ',,,.1 Th9Y wrote the State S0h8- NOW Marcum shows that southern i. ' t- V , V4 thafs what WaVih8 wheat Oklahoma truly is Horse REALLYl00kS1ikB! C011I1U'Y- o A f 3 .c i if of f ft, , N X K 'l 1 Lwhl ' ,L , l 1 Yet i 1 'K' 'f -- 74 ,. ' tk W S ..- 1 . mfg, l 'W 1 'nfl F A 3 WW W':i...M., . .Aura-:ry --4 '

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'81 PA THER BETWEEN TWO STREAMS Vol. 53 Published by The Yearbook Class Pauls Valley High School North Street Box 679 Pauls Valley, Dklahoma 73075

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Through the years, Pauls occupied with busy town effect through all that Valley has expanded from shopping centers, a rapidly expansion, we're not that little trading post on growing industrial park, hurting. the fertile creek banks to a and numerous housing Being almost directly thriving town just under additions. between the larger, more B,0O0, spilling over the Within the little hollow, exciting bright lights of banks of the Washita. we've accepted the big Dallas, Texas, and Between the streams is city effect of two shopping Oklahoma City, we are found the richest bottom centers, an industrial park, within driving distance of land in Garvin County, and the Great White either. growing the finest crops in Way. So when the excitement Oklahoma. It is not unusual on the in the valley dies down, we As time passed, the little weekends to see kids from leave it for the attraction town between the streams neighboring towns coming and thrills of the bigger no longer depended solely in for a little good ole' cities. But in the end, we ' on agriculture for its total valley excitement. Although always return to the area ff income. Fertile land is now we've maintained the small BETWEEN TWO STREAMS. W Sonja Thompson displays one of the landmark signs of Pauls Valley. opening-3