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Mount Pleasant is a village in Jefferson County, Ohio, part of the Weirton-Steubenville metropolitan area, and it was named for its scenic landscape.

Mount Pleasant was laid out in 1803 by Robert Carothers, an Irishman from Virginia, and Jesse Thomas, a Quaker from North Carolina, and the village was incorporated in 1814; an early variant name was Jesse-Bobtown.

Mount Pleasant was founded by anti-slavery Quakers, some of whom moved north specifically so that enslaved people they brought with them could live freely.

Mount Pleasant had a population of 394 at the 2020 census, down from 478 in 2010, when the census counted 192 households in the village.

In 1817, Quaker Charles Osborn began publishing The Philanthropist in Mount Pleasant, the first newspaper in the United States advocating the abolition of slavery.

In 1821, abolitionist Benjamin Lundy began publishing another antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, in Mount Pleasant, and Lundy's house in the village is a National Historic Landmark.

The brick Friends Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, built in 1814, housed the first Quaker yearly meeting established west of the Allegheny Mountains and could hold up to 2,000 people.

Mount Pleasant was a well-known station on the Underground Railroad; residents built a school for free Black children and ran a Free Produce Store that refused to sell goods produced by slave labor.

Most of the village is protected as the Mount Pleasant Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and designated a National Historic Landmark district in 2005, with dozens of antebellum houses packed into a village only about eight blocks long.

Mount Pleasant was the home of Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first African American to play major league professional baseball, and its Mount Pleasant High School, first opened in 1867, was the first public high school in the area.