Pauls Valley

Pauls Valley, city, seat (1907) of Garvin county, south-central Oklahoma, U.S. The area, on the Washita River, was first settled by white North Carolinian Smith Paul, who arrived with a group of relocated Chickasaw Indians in 1837. He began to cultivate the fertile bottomland in 1857, and when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad reached the settlement in 1887 it designated the area Smith Paul’s Valley, later shortened to Paul’s Valley. A town site...