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Unincorporated community in Alabama, US

Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States
Pleasant Ridge, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Pleasant Ridge is located in AlabamaPleasant RidgePleasant RidgeShow map of AlabamaPleasant Ridge is located in the United StatesPleasant RidgePleasant RidgeShow map of the United States
Coordinates: 33°00′51″N 88°05′01″W / 33.01417°N 88.08361°W / 33.01417; -88.08361
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyGreene
Elevation305 ft (93 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID155209

Pleasant Ridge, also known as Ridge, is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Alabama, United States. Pleasant Ridge is located on Alabama State Route 14, 17.2 miles (27.7 km) northwest of Eutaw.

History

A post office operated under the name Pleasant Ridge from 1825 to 1918. On April 6, 1865, there was a skirmish between Union forces under the command of Brigadier General John T. Croxton and Confederate forces under the command of Brigadier-General William Wirt Adams near Pleasant Ridge. Croxton was leaving Tuscaloosa, having burned the University of Alabama on April 4. The 6th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment engaged with Adams' forces. Union casualties were three killed in action, eight wounded, sixty-eight captured. Adams's Confederate force suffered nine killed, twenty-five wounded, and one captured.

References

  1. "Pleasant Ridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. "Tuscaloosa County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
  3. Willis Brewer (1872). Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: From 1540 to 1872. Barrett & Brown. pp. 260.
  4. Benson John Lossing (1874). The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America. T. Belknap. pp. 2.
  5. Scott W. Owens, "The Federal Invasion of Pickens County," The Alabama Review, April 2009, 62(2):83-112
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County seat: Eutaw
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