Betsy Vaughn is seated on the ground in front of the Pleasant Valley School wearing a grass skirt and lei. The school was located on Hills Creek near Lobelia, West Virginia. It opened in the late 1890s and closed in 1942. (Pocahontas County Historical Society Collection; ID: PHS004583)
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