Mount Pleasant

Michigan, United States
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Mount Pleasant, city, seat (1859) of Isabella county, central Michigan, U.S., located on the Chippewa River about 45 miles (70 km) west of Bay City. It was a Native American trading post and lumber camp in the 1850s and later became a farming centre. Its development was sustained by the arrival of the railroad (1879) and the establishment there (1892) of a normal school (which by 1959 had developed into Central Michigan University) and of a federal Indian school (1891; later a state school and now closed). After the discovery of oil in the vicinity (1927), the city became the ...(100 of 167 words)