The Village of Pleasant Hill

The Pleasant Hill on today's map is in Sabine Parish, not here. That town was incorporated in 1896, counted 300 people in 1900, peaked at 907 in 1960 and had 617 in 2020. Oscar K. Allen, who served as governor from 1932 to 1936, taught school there in the 1900s, and the physician Edgar Hull, who helped found medical schools in New Orleans and Shreveport, practiced there from 1929 to 1931. Its best-known event is the battle of April 9, 1864, which was fought at the older village.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 14 mi
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.
• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.
• North Toledo Bend State Park — 23 mi
  A 900-acre park on the Louisiana shore of the 186,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir, with trails, disc golf and cabins, near the flooded sites of Pine Flat and other Sabine Parish communities.

More markers nearby

• Pleasant Hill Battle Park — steps away
• The Old Cistern — steps away
• Headquarters Department of the Gulf / Headquarters Trans-Mississippi Dept. — steps away
• Federal Hospital — 0.3 mi