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History · Mount Pleasant Township

Mount Pleasant Township’s post office opened in 1859, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Lake City and Rochester Stage Road-Mount Pleasant Section and the Patrick H. Rahilly House. Its Register listings are the Lake City and Rochester Stage Road-Mount Pleasant Section and the Patrick H. Rahilly House.

1859first post office
2on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
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How Mount Pleasant Township began

When was Mount Pleasant Township founded?

1859

The Mount Pleasant Township post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Mount Pleasant (1859), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 447167 years
Founding year: the first Mount Pleasant Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Mount Pleasant Township’s past

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

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mount Pleasant Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Mount Pleasant Township, in brief

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

Its first post office opened in 1859. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 447 in 2010, 447 in 2020.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Mount Pleasant Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1975
Patrick H. Rahilly House
Lake City and Rochester Stage Road-Mount Pleasant SectionPatrick H. Rahilly House
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Architectural styles listings

Earth Road1
Italian Villa1
Lake City and Rochester Stage Road-Mount Pleasant SectionEarth Road
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Patrick H. Rahilly HouseBuilding · listed 1975

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Another post office, Mount Pleasant, opened and closed inside today’s town.

3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Mount Pleasant Township
County LineGerman MethodistGilbert Valley

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Gillford TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBelvidere TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFlorence Township2 historic placesB+

Questions about Mount Pleasant Township’s history

What year was Mount Pleasant Township founded?

The Mount Pleasant Township post office opened in 1859, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Mount Pleasant Township?

Two places: the Lake City and Rochester Stage Road-Mount Pleasant Section (listed 1991) and the Patrick H. Rahilly House (1975).

Memory lane

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 National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.