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Pleasant Hill, Alabama

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Pleasant Hill, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Pleasant Hill Alabama Volunteer Fire Department
Pleasant Hill Alabama Volunteer Fire Department
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyDallas
Elevation
404 ft (123 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
36775
Area code251
GNIS feature ID155207[1]

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

History

The community began as a trading post called Fort Rascal prior to the Indian removal, it gained a post office in the 1840s 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 local planter. 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%±
1880193—
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

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

Notable people

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 2008-11-05.
  3. ^ Sims, Michael. "Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church: An endangered historic property in Pleasant Hill, Alabama". Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
  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" (PDF). Alabama Historical Commission. www.preserveala.org. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
  7. ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.


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