Editing Mount Pleasant, Utah (section)

==History==
In the spring of 1852, [[Latter Day Saint movement|Latter-Day Saint]] colonists from [[Manti, Utah|Manti]] led by Madison D. Hambleton established the Hambleton Settlement near the present site of Mt. Pleasant.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mount Pleasant City, Utah |url=https://www.sanpete.com/mt-pleasant.html |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Sanpete County |language=en}}</ref> During the [[Wakara's War|Wakara War]], the settlers relocated to Spring Town ([[Spring City, Utah|Spring City]]), and later to Manti for protection. Local Native Americans destroyed the old settlement by setting it on fire. A large colonizing party from [[Ephraim, Utah|Ephraim]] and Manti returned to the area in 1859, and a permanent site was laid out in its present location.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mount Pleasant, Utah {{!}} Advisory Council on Historic Preservation |url=https://www.achp.gov/preserve-america/community/mount-pleasant-utah |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=www.achp.gov}}</ref> 

Among the founding settlers were Latter-Day Saint converts from [[Scandinavia]], the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]], and the eastern United States. By 1880, Mt. Pleasant was the county's largest city, with a population of 2,000. More than 72 percent of its married adults were foreign-born. This ethnic diversity had an important impact on village life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For decades, five languages were commonly spoken in the town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Utah History Encyclopedia |url=https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/m/MOUNT_PLEASANT.shtml |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=www.uen.org}}</ref>

The settlement and development of Mt. Pleasant followed the typical pattern for Latter-Day Saint towns of the period. A square-shaped town site was surveyed, lots were drawn, and the land was distributed among the population. Under the direction of James Russell Ivie (1802–1866), a fort of adobe walls and log cabins was built. Pleasant Creek ran through the fort, and farming was done outside of its walls. Ivie was killed in the [[Black Hawk War (Utah)|Ute Black Hawk War]] by Indians who had declined to participate in the settlement of the earlier [[Wakara's War|Wakara War]]. Around that time, the town acquired its present name. In 1872 the final peace treaty with the Indians was signed in Bishop Seeley's house on Main Street, bringing an end to this conflict. By this time, many settlers had erected homesteads outside of the fort. The town site may be expansive, but the population density remains relatively low, owing to the original layout that permitted only four lots per block.<ref>{{Cite web |last=root |date=2023-09-27 |title=UAE Desert Adventures {{!}} Dubai Adventure Tours |url=https://uaedesertadventures.com/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=UAE Desert Adventures |language=en-US}}</ref>

Some of the first industries in Mt. Pleasant included tanning, shoe making, blacksmithing, basket making, and freighting. Eventual modernization brought such improvements as the [[Deseret Telegraph Company|Deseret Telegraph]] in 1869, the Pyramid Newspaper in 1890, and a telephone system in 1891.

Sawmills and flour mills were built, irrigation systems were dug, and a municipal government was created to oversee public laws and improvements. The city was incorporated in 1868, a year after the first cooperative store was founded. Upon the arrival of the [[Rio Grande Western Railway]] in 1890, both the local population and the city's prosperity increased dramatically. By 1900, Mt. Pleasant had grown to nearly 3,000 people, the largest size reached by any city in Sanpete County to that time, and the city had earned one of its nicknames, "Hub City".{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

The town's increased wealth resulted in the replacement of small, wood-frame commercial buildings with more durable stone and brick structures, such as the Sanpete County Co-op built in 1888. Additionally, the pioneer period's simpler adobe and log buildings were replaced with more elaborate Victorian-style churches, schools, and residences.

By 1912, the first high school, [[North Sanpete High School]], had been completed. 1912 also brought the Armory Hall, while the Elite Theater was constructed as a "fireproof" building in 1913. It burned down seven decades later.{{Date?|date=April 2023}} In 1917, a [[Carnegie Library]] was built in a modern architectural style. The Marie Hotel was erected in 1920 and a large cheese factory was built in 1930, the same year that the bus service came to town. The completion of U.S. Highway 89 in 1936 softened the impact of the Great Depression. A city hall was built in 1939 and a hospital in 1945.