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Mount Pleasant is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, that was settled in 1797 and incorporated on February 7, 1828.

Mount Pleasant grew up at the junction of two Native American paths, along the routes of what are now Pennsylvania Routes 31 and 819.

The road built for General Edward Braddock's expedition passed through the Mount Pleasant area in 1755 during the French and Indian War.

The Jacob's Creek Bridge, built just south of Mount Pleasant in 1801, was the first iron-chain suspension bridge constructed in the United States, though it was demolished in 1833.

Mount Pleasant has a long glassmaking heritage: the Bryce Brothers glass works began operating there in 1850, and the L. E. Smith Glass Company, founded in 1907, made glass in the borough until it closed in 2004.

Mount Pleasant boomed with the coal and coke industry after the Bessemer steel process arrived in 1859, and during the Morewood coke strike, nine miners were killed by sheriff's deputies on April 3, 1891.

The main-line railroads bypassed Mount Pleasant in the 1850s, so the borough got its own Mount Pleasant and Broadford Railroad in 1871, and West Penn Railways trolleys served the town from 1906 to 1952.

The 2020 census counted 4,245 residents in Mount Pleasant living in 1,980 households, down from the borough's peak population of 6,107 in 1960.

Mount Pleasant has a large Polish-American community, reflected in its Tadeusz Kosciuszko Club, named for the Polish hero of the American Revolution.

Mount Pleasant's oldest surviving buildings include the Shupe House, the Hitchman House, and the Rupert Building, all dating to about 1812, and the Samuel Warden House of 1886 and the Mount Pleasant Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.