Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,707.
An early settler was Isaac Morley, early Mormon and contemporary of both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
After taking lumber out of Pleasant Creek Canyon in late 1851, a band of Mormon colonists from Manti led by Madison D. Hambleton returned in the spring of 1852 to establish the Hambleton Settlement near the present site...
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Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,707.
An early settler was Isaac Morley, early Mormon and contemporary of both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
After taking lumber out of Pleasant Creek Canyon in late 1851, a band of Mormon colonists from Manti led by Madison D. Hambleton returned in the spring of 1852 to establish 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 Mormon converts from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and the...
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