In the fall of 1873, the pioneer families of William A. Stewart and Joseph Evans settled here in a wilderness of giant greasewoods. In the spring of 1874, they were joined by Asa S. Hawley, Barnard Greenwood, William Greenwood, Joseph Hooton, Samuel Gray, William Porter, John Avery, Ames Rappleye, Edward Rappleye, George James, Henry Staples, and William Marble. Probate Judge William Morrison laid out the town site in 1875 and named it Inverury after the city in Scotland from which he came. The first homes were small shacks or dugouts connected by a path through the greasewoods. In 1876, a small crude log house was built to serve as a community building, church, and school, and as soon as possible a new school was built with one teacher for all grades. Inverury was renamed Central in 1940, renamed Central Valley in 1998, and officially incorporated as Central Valley Town in 2005.