Mount Pleasant is an extinct hamlet in

Gentry County Gentry County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,162. Its county seat is Albany. The county was organized February 14, 1841 and named for General Richard ...

, in the

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. Mount Pleasant was

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ted in 1856. Mount Pleasant is a commendatory name. A variant name was "Ellington". A post office called Mount Pleasant was established in 1862, the name was changed to Ellington in 1879, and the post office closed in 1890. Nothing remains of the settlement.

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Former populated places in Missouri Former populated places in Gentry County, Missouri {{GentryCountyMO-geo-stub