Pleasant Hill, Alabama

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Pleasant Hill, Alabama
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Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Hill (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°09′56″N86°54′43″W / 32.16556°N 86.91194°W / 32.16556; -86.91194
Country United States
State Alabama
County Dallas
Elevation
404 ft (123 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
36775
Area code 251
GNIS feature ID155207 [1]

Pleasant Hill is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama. [2]

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History

The community began as a trading post called Fort Rascal prior to the Indian removal. It gained a post office in 1828 and the name was changed to Pleasant Hill. [3] The community was visited by Philip Henry Gosse, an English naturalist, for an eight-month period in 1838 when he taught school for Reuben Saffold, a planter who owned Belvoir and ajustice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. His studies and drawings of the flora and fauna of the area and his recollections of slavery were later published in his book Letters from Alabama. [4] Pleasant Hill has one site included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church. [5] It has several sites listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and one nearby, Belvoir. [6]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
1880 193
U.S. Decennial Census [7]

Pleasant Hill was listed on the 1880 U.S. Census as having a population of 193.

Notable people

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References

  1. "Pleasant Hill". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. "Pleasant Hill, Alabama". "AL HomeTownLocator". Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  3. Sims, Michael Vaughn. "Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church: An endangered historic property in Pleasant Hill, Alabama". Archived from the original on October 26, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2008.
  4. Gosse, Philip Henry (1993) [1859]. Letters from Alabama, (U.S.) chiefly relating to natural history (Annotated ed.). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 7–21. ISBN   0-585-32308-9.
  5. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  6. "Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage". Alabama Historical Commission. www.preserveala.org. June 4, 2009. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  7. "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.