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Community of Pleasant Hill History
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

A town was laid out at Pleasant Hill in 1840 by Isaac Smalley, but when the C. & A. railroad passed it by, it went into a decline. Only two buildings now stand. ["Official souvenir program, McLean County Centennial, Aug. 27, 28, 30, 1930" by: McLean County Illinois Centennial Souvenir Program Committee, Harold Lang and Eugene Funk] Also in Lexington Township is the scattered settlement of Pleasant Hill, located near the Mackinaw River. The settlement began as a townsite laid out in 1840 by Isaac Smalley, who had arrived here in 1838. The Presbyterian Church was built at Pleasant Hill in 1852 and the United Brethren Church in 1858. [This is McLean County, Illinois by: John Drury, The Loree Co., Chicago, Illinois (1955)]

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