Pear or Pearll Valley, New Mexico

Pearl, was a perverbial "pain in the backside" for residents of what was to become, Lea County, as Lea, was sheep and cattle grazing land in the late 1890' and early 1900's.
 
Pearl is now referred to as: Pearl Valley, by locale residents and is located west of Monument and was originally established as a farming community established by R.L. Smith, better known as, Farmer. R.L. aka, Farmer, established his farm around 1900 and the area is still being farmed with little evidence of it's past history.

Pearl was one of the earliest known communities that established rural transportation in the form of  wagon for school children in the area.br /> The Pearl school was later to be merged with with other small schools and merged into the Monument school system, which was later consumed by the Hobbs School system.