Pleasant Gap, also known as Pleasantsgap and Stocks Mills, is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Cherokee County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Alabama
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.
History
A post office called Pleasant Gap was established in 1847, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1932. The community was named from a nearby gap at Frog Mountain.
Demographics
References
Unincorporated communities in Cherokee County, Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Alabama
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