Pleasant Site, Alabama

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Pleasant Site, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Pleasant Site
Coordinates: 34°32′31″N88°03′55″W / 34.54194°N 88.06528°W / 34.54194; -88.06528
Country United States
State Alabama
County Franklin
Elevation
515 ft (157 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 205, 659
GNIS feature ID125042 [1]

Pleasant Site is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Alabama, United States.

History

The name Pleasant Site comes from a subjectively descriptive term of the surrounding area. [2] A post office operated under the name Pleasant Site from 1843 to 1911. [3]

During the Civil War, Company B of the 27th Alabama Infantry (known as the "Confederate Sentinels") was organized at Pleasant Site. [4] The last surviving Confederate veteran in Franklin County, Allen Haley Taylor, is buried in Pleasant Site. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Pleasant Site". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 113. ISBN   0-8173-0410-X.
  3. ↑ "Franklin County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ Lynda Brown (January 1, 1998). Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 140. ISBN   978-0-313-28223-2.
  5. ↑ United Daughters of the Confederacy Patriot Ancestor Album. Turner Publishing Company. 1999. p. 186. ISBN   978-1-56311-530-1.
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