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History · Pleasant Township

21% of Pleasant Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Pleasant 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 Pleasant Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s Pleasant Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Oakfield
1845–1874
Moxahala
1874–today
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
MoxahalaOakfieldOconorvilleWhipstown
Gone or out of use
Iron Hill SchoolschoolOakgrove Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pleasant Township
First Baptist ChurchFowlerPresbyterianSouth ForkWhiptown

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

The story so far

Pleasant Township, in brief

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

Pleasant Township is one of the fourteen townships of Perry County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 842 people in the township.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 846 in 2010, 842 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Pleasant Township, 1845 to 1874

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1845Post officeThe Oakfield post office opens
  3. 1874Post officeThe Oakfield post office closes
  4. 1874Post officeThe Moxahala post office opens
By decade

Pleasant Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Map of Perry County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Perry County Ohio HighlightingMapOHMap-doton-Moxahala2007OHMap-doton-Moxahala
Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasant Township

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

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Gene ColeAmerican sprinter · b. 1928
Stephen Benton ElkinsUnion United States Army officer · b. 1841
John Augustine ZahmHoly Cross priest, author, scientist, and South… · b. 1851
Januarius MacGahanAmerican journalist · b. 1844
William A. CalderheadAmerican politician · b. 1844
Clifford CarlsonAmerican basketball player and coach · b. 1894
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Bearfield TownshipIts storyC−Pike Township2 historic placesASalt Lick Township1 historic placeA+Monroe TownshipIts storyB

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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 Wikimedia Commons (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.