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History · Pleasantview Township

Pleasantview Township’s post office opened in 1878

Most of Pleasantview Township was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989.

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How Pleasantview Township began

When was Pleasantview Township founded?

1878

The Pleasantview Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Ayr (1878) and Pleasant View (1878), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 918148 years
Founding year: the first Pleasantview Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pleasantview Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Pleasantview Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Pleasantview Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasantview Township’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Ayr
1878–1909
Pleasant View
1878–1907
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AyrPleasant View
Gone or out of use
Ayr Post Officepost officeBoyne Highlands AirportairportPleasantview Post Officepost office
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasantview Township
AyrPleasant ViewStarr

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Pleasantview Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pleasantview Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Pleasantview Township is a civil township of Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 918 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1878. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 823 to 918 (+12%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Pleasantview Township, 1878 to 1909

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Ayr post office opens
  3. 1878Post officeThe Pleasant View post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1907Post officeThe Pleasant View post office closes
  6. 1909Post officeThe Ayr post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasantview Township

Nobody well known was born in Pleasantview Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and information theorist · b. 1916
Megan BooneAmerican actress · b. 1983
David MalpassAmerican economist · b. 1956
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Hal SmithAmerican actor · b. 1916
Bruce CattonAmerican historian and journalist · b. 1899
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Robert Klark GrahamAmerican eugenicist · b. 1906
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Friendship TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLittle Traverse TownshipIts storyCMaple River TownshipIts storyC−Center TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWest Traverse TownshipIts storyCLittlefield TownshipIts storyC−

Questions about Pleasantview Township’s history

What year was Pleasantview Township founded?

The Pleasantview Township post office opened in 1878, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.