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We would like to provide the residents of  Mount Pleasant  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Mount Pleasant Home page. The Mount Pleasant Home page provides as much information as possible on Mount Pleasant. Knowing Mount Pleasant’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Mount Pleasant’s Home page, you will also find Mount Pleasant’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Mount Pleasant has a population of 8574. 53% of Mount Pleasant’s inhabitants are Male, and 47 are female. 45.1% of Mount Pleasant is married and 64.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $124,233, and the average rent is $666. Household median income in Mount Pleasant is $51,615, and the individual median income is $28,186. Mount Pleasant’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.9%), Hispanic(8.2%), Asian(5.6%), Black(4.8%), Multiple(4.2%), Other(1.7%), Native(0.8%).


The first permanent settlement at Mount Pleasant was made in 1833. Mount Pleasant was incorporated as a town in 1842, and again in 1851.In 1869, Mount Pleasant was the site of a solar eclipse expedition, under the command of James Craig Watson and sponsored by National Almanac. The total solar eclipse occurred on August 7, 1869.In the Union Block building in 1869, Arabella A.


Mansfield became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a license to practice law. She had passed the bar exam with high scores and won a court case for entry to the bar. The legislature changed its statute. The third floor of the Union Block housed the Opera House or Union Hall, a gathering place for the community.


It attracted national speakers on tour, including abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Anna Dickinson. James Harlan also spoke there, as he was president of Iowa Wesleyan College in the town, and later was elected several times to the United States Senate. This building had been considered one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa.The Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute was built in 1861.


However, in 1936, a fire did great damage to the building. The hospital had to be closed, as little of the facility survived the fire.On December 10, 1986, Ralph Orin Davis, a resident, walked into a city council meeting and shot Mayor Edward King and two council members. Mayor King died of his wounds after being shot point blank in the head.


The 69-year-old gunman had attended a couple of previous meetings, complaining about a backed-up sewer and wanting the city to pay for damages to his house. The two council members were seriously wounded. Tom Vilsack became the replacement mayor, later serving as Governor of Iowa for 8 years, and then Secretary of Agriculture under the Obama and Biden administrations.


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