PEAR VALLEY

NAME: Pear Valley
COUNTY: McCulloch
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 3
CLIMATE: Mild year round, hot in summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime
COMMENTS: Some current residents, particularly one large agriculture business of some sort, and a tiny church.
REMAINS: A large fieldstone building, some abandoned agricultural equipment, a couple of crumbling shacks
According to the Handbook of Texas Online: Pear Valley is on Farm Road 504 sixteen miles northwest of Brady in northwestern McCulloch County. It began about 1908 as a widely scattered settlement called Saddle Creek. When the post office opened in 1910, the name was changed to Pear Valley. The population remained stable at forty-five from the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1964 it fell to twenty. Two churches and two businesses appeared on the 1987 county highway map, and the town reported thirty-seven residents in 1990. Submitted by: Paige Foster


Pear Valley
Courtesy Bobbye and Speedy Drake


Pear Valley
Courtesy Bobbye and Speedy Drake

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