Editing Pleasanton, Texas (section)

==History==
[[File:Texas - Paris through Port Aransas - NARA - 68149639 (cropped).jpg|250px|thumb|left|Pleasanton in 1936]]
Pleasanton was established in 1858 when conflicts with the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] caused the settlers to move the location of the county seat from [[Amphion, Texas|Amphion]]. The settlers chose the current townsite because of its location at the mouth of Bonita Creek. John Bowen (died 1867), San Antonio's first Anglo-American postmaster, founded and named the town of Pleasanton after his good friend and fellow early Texas Settler John Pleasants.

At one time Pleasanton had two newspapers, the ''Pleasanton Picayune'', which became the ''Pleasanton Express'' in 1909, and the ''Pleasanton Reporter''. The county seat was relocated from Pleasanton to [[Jourdanton, Texas|Jourdanton]] in 1910. Pleasanton was incorporated in 1917.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqs12| title=Nancy Beck Young, "San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad Company"| publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]] on-line| access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/history-rr-sa-uvalde-gulf.php| title=Hugh Hemphill, "San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf Railroad"| publisher=txtransportationmuseum.org| access-date=April 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410191515/https://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/history-rr-sa-uvalde-gulf.php|archive-date=2019-04-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In November 1957, the citizens of Pleasanton voted overwhelmingly to desegregate the [[state school|public schools]]. This came some two months after the crisis at [[Little Rock Central High School]] in [[Arkansas]]. Some three dozen [[African American]] pupils were then integrated into the Pleasanton school.<ref>''Civil Rights Chronicles'', p. 158</ref>