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History · Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant’s post office opened in 1871

Most of Mount Pleasant was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: maps from 1948 on.

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How Mount Pleasant began

When was Mount Pleasant founded?

1871

The Mount Pleasant post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, North Mount Pleasant (1837), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 293155 years
Founding year: the first Mount Pleasant post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Mount Pleasant’s past

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

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The story so far

Mount Pleasant, in brief

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

Mount Pleasant (or Mt. Pleasant) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States, located along U.S. Highway 72 at State Highway 311. The community has a volunteer fire department on Boswell Road, and a K-12 school located off Highway 72. Per the 2020 Census, thr population was 293.

Its first post office opened in 1871.

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

Timeline

Mount Pleasant, 1837 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1837Post officeThe North Mount Pleasant post office opens
  3. 1849Born hereJoseph N. Brown is born here
  4. 1871Post officeThe North Mount Pleasant post office closes
  5. 1871Post officeThe Mount Pleasant post office opens
  6. 1893Born hereBenn Karr is born here
  7. 20th century
  8. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1967Post officeThe Mount Pleasant post office closes
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On the map

Mount Pleasant on the map, 1948 to 1971

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mount Pleasant. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Mount Pleasant on the 1948 USGS mapMount Pleasant on the 1971 USGS map1948Byhalia sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mount Pleasant.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Mount Pleasant

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Benn KarrMajor League Baseball player · b. 1893
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Joseph N. BrownMississippi politician · b. 1849
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Mount Pleasant had its own post office from 1871 to 1967. Another post office, North Mount Pleasant, opened and closed inside today’s town.

North Mount Pleasant
1837–1871
Mount Pleasant
1871–1967
18301930today
Gone or out of use
Cooperwood Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant

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

Questions about Mount Pleasant’s history

What year was Mount Pleasant founded?

The Mount Pleasant post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.