About

The following statement of values reflects what we believe in and the reasons we exist:
1. We respect and support the changing needs of our customers, their elected representatives and our employees. We value their abilities and contributions to making Pauls Valley the standard – in every respect – by which all other cities are measured.
2. Our actions will reflect our total commitment to ethics, integrity, pride, hard work, and leadership by example.
3. Therefore, our mission is to continue building partnerships with our customers, elected officials, employees and others to transform Pauls Valley’s Vision into reality. We will provide visionary leadership focused on developing the highest quality, competitively priced, and efficiently delivered services to our customers.

Public Participation

The City Manager’s Office encourages and oversees the efforts of all city departments to promote your participation in your local government. The City Manager’s Office, along with all other city departments, strives to provide you with information about city projects, considerations before City Council, and other issues that impact you.

The area that eventually became the city of Pauls Valley was one of the earliest European settlements in what was then known as Indian Territory. Smith Paul, born in 1809 in New Bern, North Carolina, discovered the fertile bottom land which is now Pauls Valley while a member of a wagon train traveling to California. Paul described the land as “a section where the bottom land was rich and blue stem grass grew so high that a man on horseback was almost hidden in its foliage.”

The Tri-Party Treaty of January 1, 1837 ceded this part of what is now the State of Oklahoma to the Chickasaw Nation. When the Chickasaw Indians were relocated to Indian Territory that year, Smith Paul moved with them and married Ela-Teecha, a Chickasaw Indian woman. In 1847, the Pauls settled on the rich Garvin County bottom land which became known to locals as “Smith Paul’s Valley”. By 1871, postal service was established in the area, although the Post Office was accidentally called “Paul’s Valley, Arkansas” as the Indian Territory was being administered out of Arkansas. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway shortened the name to “Paul’s Valley” when the railroad came to town in 1887.

The railroad brought growth and prosperity to Smith Pauls Valley. The first newspaper was published in 1887. The Pauls Valley townsite was laid out in 1892. A U.S. Court house was built in 1895. The first white school in Indian Territory was established and brick buildings were built downtown. In 1909, the streets were bricked. Today, Pauls Valley has more brick streets [17,986 square yards (15,039 m2)] than any other town in the United States.

For more information about Pauls Valley and what it has to offer, please visit: http://paulsvalley.com