Pleasant Site, Alabama

Pleasant Site is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Alabama, United States.

Pleasant Site, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Pleasant Site
Pleasant Site
Coordinates: 34°32′31″N 88°03′55″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyFranklin
Elevation
515 ft (157 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID125042[1]

History

The name Pleasant Site comes from a subjectively descriptive term of the surrounding area.[2] A post office operated under the name Pleasant Site from 1843 to 1911.[3]

During the Civil War, Company B of the 27th Alabama Infantry (known as the "Confederate Sentinels") was organized at Pleasant Site.[4] The last surviving Confederate veteran in Franklin County, Allen Haley Taylor, is buried in Pleasant Site.[5]

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References
  1. "Pleasant Site". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 113. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. "Franklin County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  4. Lynda Brown (1 January 1998). Alabama History: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-313-28223-2.
  5. United Daughters of the Confederacy Patriot Ancestor Album. Turner Publishing Company. 1999. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-56311-530-1.



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