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Pleasantville is a village in Fairfield County in central Ohio, laid out in 1828 by John Boston and surveyor Ewel Jefferies on five acres Boston had bought from James Rogers.

The village was first called Vicksburg, then New Boston, before taking the name Pleasantville from Pleasant Township and from Pleasant Run, the principal stream in the area.

Lots went on sale on October 6, 1828, at prices from $2 to $26, and John Boston built the village's first house and its first church — a log structure — in 1829.

Pleasantville was incorporated in 1886 with David Pence as its first mayor, though a post office had already served the village since 1828.

The 2020 census counted 934 people in Pleasantville; in 2010 it had 960 residents living in 358 households.

Pleasantville packs its population into just 0.27 square miles, which gave it a density of more than 3,600 people per square mile in 2010.

The Fairfield Union Academy, an early school of higher learning organized in 1860, put Pleasantville on the educational map, and its building went up in 1861 on land granted by John and Catherine Ashbrook.

During World War I, Company D of the 7th Ohio Infantry was quartered in Pleasantville at the old Academy building.

In the early 1900s the Ohio Central Glass Company opened on Summit Street — the first glass factory in Fairfield County, staffed mostly by Belgian workers — before the most disastrous fire in the village's history destroyed it.

Before white settlement, the Pleasantville area was Wyandot and Delaware hunting ground, and its first known settler, William Green, arrived in the late 1700s.