Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama
| Pleasant Hill | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
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The Pleasant Hill Alabama Volunteer Fire Department | |
  Pleasant Hill Location in Alabama. | |
| Coordinates: 32°09′56″N 86°54′43″W / 32.16556°N 86.91194°WCoordinates: 32°09′56″N 86°54′43″W / 32.16556°N 86.91194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Dallas |
| Elevation | 404 ft (123 m) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 36775 |
| Area code(s) | 251 |
| GNIS feature ID | 155207[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 plantation owner. 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]
Notable natives
References
- ↑ "Pleasant Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ↑ "Pleasant Hill, Alabama". "AL HomeTownLocator". Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ "Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage". Alabama Historical Commission. www.preserveala.org. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
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