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Mount Pleasant, UT - History
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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 3471. 51.5% of Mount Pleasant’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.5 are female. 58.3% of Mount Pleasant is married and 78.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $178,903, and the average rent is $1,050. Household median income in Mount Pleasant is $54,811, and the individual median income is $23,640. Mount Pleasant’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.4%), Hispanic(3.3%), Other(3.1%), Multiple(1.3%), Asian(1.2%), Black(1%), Pacific(0.6%), Native(0.4%).
In the spring of 1852, a band of Latter-Day Saint colonists from Manti led by Madison D. Hambleton established the Hambleton Settlement near the present site of Mt. Pleasant. During the Walkara (Walker) Indian War, the small group of settlers relocated to Spring Town (Spring City) and later to Manti for protection.
The old settlement was burned down by local Native Americans, so when a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned to the area in 1859, a new, permanent townsite was laid out in its present location, one hundred miles south of Salt Lake City and twenty-two miles northeast of Manti. Among the founding settlers were Latter-Day Saint converts from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and the eastern United States.
By 1880, Mt. Pleasant was the county's largest city, with a population of 2,000, and more than 72 percent of its married adults were foreign-born. This ethnic diversity had an important impact on village life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For decades, five languages were commonly spoken in town.The settlement and development of Mt.
Pleasant followed the typical pattern for Latter-Day Saint towns of the period. A square-shaped townsite was surveyed (eventually containing about 100 city blocks), lots were drawn, and the land was distributed among the population. Under the direction of James Russell Ivie (1802–1866), a fort of adobe walls and log cabins was built.
Pleasant Creek ran through the fort and farming was done outside of its walls. Around the time that Ivie was killed in the Ute Black Hawk War, by Indians who had declined to participate in the settlement of the earlier Wakara War, the town had acquired its present name. By the time the final peace treaty with the Indians was signed in Bishop Seeley's house on Main Street in 1872, bringing to an end this conflict, many settlers had already erected homesteads outside of the fort.
Although the town site is large in scale, the density is relatively low due to the original layout allowing for only four lots per block. Some of the first industries in Mt. Pleasant included tanning, shoe making, blacksmithing, basket making, and freighting. Eventual modernization brought such improvements as the Deseret Telegraph in 1869, the Pyramid Newspaper in 1890, and a telephone system in 1891. Sawmills and flour mills were built, irrigation systems were dug, and a municipal government was created to oversee public laws and improvements.
The city was incorporated in 1868, a year after the first co-operative store was founded. Upon the arrival of the Rio Grande Western Railway in 1890, both the local population and the city's prosperity increased dramatically. By 1900, Mt. Pleasant had grown to nearly 3,000 people, the largest size reached by any city in Sanpete County to that time, and the city had earned one of its nicknames, "Hub City."The increased wealth in the town led to the replacement of small, wood-frame commercial buildings with stone and brick structures such as the 1888 Sanpete County Co-op.
Victorian churches, schools, and residences replaced the simpler adobe and log buildings of the pioneer period. By 1912, the first high school, North Sanpete High School, had been completed. 1912 also brought the Armory Hall, while the Elite Theater was constructed as a "fireproof" building in 1913.
It burned down seven decades later. In 1917, a Carnegie Library was built in a modern architectural style. The Marie Hotel was erected in 1920 and a large cheese factory was built in 1930, the same year that bus service came to town. The completion of U.S. Highway 89 in 1936 softened the impact of the Great Depression.
A city hall was built in 1939 and a hospital in 1945.
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