Official Name: | Pleasant Ridge, Alabama |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Alabama#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Pleasant Ridge |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
Subdivision Name2: | Greene |
Elevation Ft: | 305 |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 33.0142°N -88.0836°W |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Area Code: | 205, 659 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 155209 |
Pleasant Ridge, also known as Ridge, is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Alabama, United States. Pleasant Ridge is located on Alabama State Route 14, 17.2miles northwest of Eutaw.
A post office operated under the name Pleasant Ridge from 1825 to 1918.[1] On April 6, 1865, there was a skirmish between Union forces under the command of Brigadier General John T. Croxton and Confederate forces under the command of Brigadier-General William Wirt Adams near Pleasant Ridge. Croxton was leaving Tuscaloosa, having burned the University of Alabama on April 4.[2] The 6th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment engaged with Adams' forces.[3] Union casualties were three killed in action, eight wounded, sixty-eight captured. Adams's Confederate force suffered nine killed, twenty-five wounded, and one captured.[4]