Pleasant View stands on the Daniel Young 2,059 acre Land Grant No. 2419 of June 29, 1784 and the Robert Weakley North Carolina 640 acre Grant No. 342 of September 24, 1787, where John Turnbull of Natchez, MS corralled his herds adjoining the headwaters of Spring Creek. The earliest settlers in this area were Peter Woodson, Herbert Alley, Thomas Williams, Joseph Bradley, John Hyde, John Hunt, Shadrack Hunt, William Shaw, Nathan Morris, Robert Pennington, and Dempsey Hunter, most from Virginia and the Carolinas. It was first incorporated March 31, 1921, and incorporated a second time October 10, 1996.