Mt. Pleasnt A.M.E. Church in the community of Mt. Pleasant, West Virginia was established in1870, the same year Mt. Zion A.M.E. in Duffields, West Virginia was founded. The property on which the Mt. Pleasant A.M.E. Church stood was sold by John J. and Mary E. Grantham for $85.00 to John Thornton, Adrian D. Berry, George Ranson, Charles E. Wheeler, and Frank Rockenbaugh.

A later deed, dated March 3, 1898 lists Jeremiah Cuffy and Pauline M. Cuffy of Northhampton County, Virginia, as sellers. The transfer was made to the trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: Samuel Mitchell, David Taylor, Lewis Cross, Frank Washington, and Benjamin Botts. Rules of discipline, according to the deed, were to be controlled by the African Methodist Episcopal Church as established by "her general conference."

Families who belonged to the Mt. Zion A.M.E. congregation through the years include the Dolemans, Whites, Paytons, Cantys, Jacksons, Weavers, and others. Mrs. Francis Doleman served for many years as the church clerk.

Pastors through the years included Rev. Canty, Scott, Giles, Moats, Favors, and others. Rev. Joseph Washington was the last pastor.

Mt. Zion A.M.E. had a very cordial relationship with Ebenezer Methodist Church, the other Mt. Pleasant congregation. The small community of church-goers attended each other's worship celebrations, homecomings, and the like until Mt. Zion's doors closed, it is believed, in the 1960s. All that remains is the adjoining cemetery that is grown over with an impenetrable thicket of underbrush and trees, except for a scant stretch with the neatly kept gravesites of three or four former Mt. Pleasant residents. This clearing divides the residential property from the cemetery containing as many as two hundred graves. The property on which the church once stood was eventually sold. It was owned for several years by Rev. Phillip Franklin Taylor, formerly of the House of Prayer Church of God, who in turn sold it to the Paul Dillow family, current residents of Mt. Pleasant.

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Taylor, Evelyn M. E. "Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Pleasant, West Virginia." In Historical Digest of Jefferson County, West Virginia's African American Congregations, 1859-1994: with Selected Churches in Neighboring Berkeley County, West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia, 155–155. Washington, D.C.: Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1999.