Mount Pleasant is a
populated place in the town of
Shandaken in
Ulster County, New York
Ulster County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is situated along the Hudson River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 181,851. The county seat is Kingston. The county is named after the Irish province of Ulster.
History
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, United States. Mount Pleasant is located along
New York State Route 28
New York State Route 28 (NY 28) is a state highway extending for in the shape of a "C" between the Hudson Valley city of Kingston and southern Warren County in the U.S. state of New York. Along the way, it intersects several major ...
within
Catskill State Park
The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in New York in the United States. It consists of of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005, or 41 percent of the land within, is owned ...
, to the south of
Phoenicia
Phoenicia () was an ancient thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. The territory of the Phoenician city-states extended and shrank throughout their histor ...
and to the north of
Boiceville. The community is located at .
History
In 1805, Jacob Montrose was a licensed innkeeper who lived at "The Corner", near Mount Pleasant. In 1810, it was held by Jacob Longyear. There was later a railroad station at Mount Pleasant.
In 1880, the Ulster County Manufacturing company operated a pulp-mill in the hamlet. Joseph Degraff ran a pill box factory. There was also James Lockwood's store, Martin Terwilliger's blacksmith shop, John Inglodson's shoe shop, two mills, and a hotel.
Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. ''History of Ulster County, New York', Everts & Peck, 1880, p. 308
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References
{{Ulster County, New York
Hamlets in Ulster County, New York