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Do you know of Pleasants ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pleasants. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Pleasants.<1>

Our sources for Pleasants (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Pleasants other than they indicate that Pleasants would be found somewhere in Granville County, North Carolina.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1892 and closed  in 1903.

Communities Also Named Pleasants ...

We found one communities that share the name Pleasants.

Within North Carolina, the name Pleasants is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Pleasants in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • West Virginia
      • Pleasants County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pleasants [Pleasants County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pleasants ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pleasants:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Rand McNally Map of North Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Granville County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Granville County.

Adoniram 
 Lyonsville
Big Rock 
Blue WingMerrittsville
Brookville 
BrownsvilleNew Hope Mills
BuchananNoblin
 Northside
Ceres 
 Pattonsville
Dace 
DeanSassafras Fork
DementSunset
Dutchville 
 Tally Ho
EnergyThorp
 Tranquility
Green's 
 Virgilina
Hampton 
HargroveWaterloo
 Whetstone
JeffreysWilkins
  
Kintons Cross RoadZacho

Footnotes ...

<1>This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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