Pleasant Hill is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama.

[2] The community began as a trading post called Fort Rascal prior to the Indian removal.

[3] The community was visited by Philip Henry Gosse, an English naturalist, for an eight-month period in 1838 when he taught school for Reuben Saffold, a planter who owned Belvoir and ajustice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

His studies and drawings of the flora and fauna of the area and his recollections of slavery were later published in his book Letters from Alabama.

[5] It has several sites listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and one nearby, Belvoir.