| Official Name: | Pleasant Hill, Alabama |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Alabama#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Pleasant Hill |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Alabama |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
| Subdivision Name2: | Dallas |
| Elevation Ft: | 404 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Coordinates: | 32.1656°N -86.9119°W |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 36775 |
| Area Code: | 251 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 155207 |
Pleasant Hill is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama.[1]
The community began as a trading post called Fort Rascal prior to the Indian removal. It gained a post office in 1828 and the name was changed to Pleasant Hill.[2] The community was visited by Philip Henry Gosse, an English naturalist, for an eight-month period in 1838 when he taught school for Reuben Saffold, a planter who owned Belvoir and ajustice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. His studies and drawings of the flora and fauna of the area and his recollections of slavery were later published in his book Letters from Alabama.[3] Pleasant Hill has one site included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church. It has several sites listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and one nearby, Belvoir.[4]
Pleasant Hill was listed on the 1880 U.S. Census as having a population of 193.