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Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States
Pleasant Hill, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 32°09′56″N 86°54′43″W / 32.16556°N 86.91194°W / 32.16556; -86.91194
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyDallas
Elevation404 ft (123 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code36775
Area code251
GNIS feature ID155207

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

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. 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. Pleasant Hill has one site included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church. It has several sites listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and one nearby, Belvoir.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1880193—
U.S. Decennial Census

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 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) . 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.
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