Historical Marker

Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church

After years of traveling great distances to Harrodsburg or New Providence churches, Isaac Gray, Josiah Wilson, and Abram Whitenack determined to build church in their Mt. Pleasant community. Completed 1851; organized 1852 with 58 former members of New Providence Presby. Church. Rev. Thomas Cleland preached the organizational sermon.

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Mt. Pleasant Church - Church housed Mt. Pleasant School, 1858 until one built on the site south of church in 1860s. Slaves attended church here before Civil War; buried in unmarked graves. Church illustrates denominational variety of two-door architecture in antebellum Bluegrass. Segregated seating, men on left and women and children on right, was observed. Presented by Mt. Pleasant Church.