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From: "Joyce Cooper Walker" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Barren Fork/Mt. Pleasant
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:53:55 -0500
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Hello Harold and All on List....On a Cooper reujion several years age at
Violet Hill School. there was some discussion about the name of Violet Hill,
and where it got its name....The story is told around Violet Hill that the
school girl came home ( like your story says) and wanted the name changed
to a more pleasant sounding name....and because of all the wild violets
growing around the area....

I'm sure there are other stories about how these towm got their
names....Please let us hear from you all and about the Violet Hill and Mt
Pleasant name or did this happen to more than one town???

Joyce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Blevins" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Barren Fork/Mt. Pleasant


> The place was first called Barren Fork, and a post office was established
> by that name on 25 May 1876. Later, a young lady named Miss M.E.
> Moore went away to Jackson MS to attend school and the students there
> asked her if the place she was from was really "barren". When she came
> home, she had her father, O.P. Moore, who was a prominent man in the
> community, circulate a petition for a name change. The post office was
> changed to its present name on 29 October 1914. I have heard my
> grandfather refer to it as "Drytown", he used to haul freight through
there.
> At one time Mt. Pleasant held the distinction of being the only town
> in the county to maintain a hospital. In 1928 the Women's Board of the
> Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., with some donations from the community,
> built and equipped a modern hospital there, which operated until 1941
> when it was discontinued........................hrb
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> Barren Fork, which was renamed to Mount Pleasant has always been in Izard
> Co. I'm not exactly sure when the name change took place Regards;
> Stan
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