Pleasant Hill

Panola County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: Unknown

Council of Governments: ETCOG

Public History: There are no current descriptions related to Pleasant Hill in the public record. If you are aware of any sources that we may have missed please share them with us.

Community History: Pleasant Hill is just north of Woods. Pleasant Hill CME Church was established in 1917. Pleasant Hill Cemetery is adjacent to the church to the east and has over 300 burials.

The first Black commissioner of Carthage, James H. Wall Sr., attended Pleasant Hill School “in Woods Community” and was later head teacher at that school until it was consolidated with New Salem School in Shady Grove into Southside in 1955.

Cemetery: Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Church: Pleasant Hill CME Church