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are, like most Texas localities, described in the Handbook of Texas Online. However, unlike the majority of towns listed there, the respective articles give no basis for the names. I suspect that a hillock in the area of Mt. Pleasant was considered a fine place by early settlers. Mt. Vernon was settled in the early part of the nineteenth century, about the time of the Texas Revolution. Did U.S. patriotic fervor lead locals to style their town after George Washington's home?
Actually, there are mountains nearer than the Arbuckles to these two places, the Ouachitas due north in SE Oklahoma. This range, which extends into Arkansas (Hot Springs is in the Ouachita Mountains), has the rugged topography of true mountains and stands a couple of thousand feet above the surroundings, unlike the rounded countours of the Arbuckles. These mountains comprise the oldest range of true mountains (geologically defined) in North America, and in ancient times they extended from the present locale in Arkansas and Oklahoma SW to the vicinity of Big Bend National Park, where a group of hills SE of Marathon is a surviving relict. Oil and coal formations in parts of central and west Texas have their basis in buried remnants.
But the town names are unrelated to either group of uplands, of course.
I googled Pitt Grill and found that the company that owns them is located in Sulphur, Louisiana. There are Pitt Grills all over Louisiana, Arkansas, and East Texas. The Hampton Road one may be the westernmost. I also learned that folks seem either to love them or hate them. What valuable information we can get from the internet (Ha :-) ).
Dave
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