Pleasureville is a house rule-class city in Henry and Shelby counties, Kentucky, United States. The population was 834 at the epoch of the 2010 U.S. Census.

In 1784, 30-odd Dutch Huguenot families colonizing present-day Mercer County purchased 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) from Squire Boone. They erected a fort for their tutelage about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of present-day north Pleasureville. Their home was held and cultivated in common, but managed by Abraham Banta. It was variously known as “The Dutch Tract”, the “Low Dutch Settlement” or “Station”, and “Bantatown”, but the reveal office was time-honored as “Pleasureville” c. 1828, and the city was incorporated below that proclaim in 1842.

Rennick relates the local tab that it derived from a visitor expressing what a pleasure it was to stay accompanied by such genial people. This savings account was along with detailed in an autobiography of Isaac Newton LeCompte in 1919, where he noted, “My Great Uncle, Major Joe LeCompte, who was a politician as skillfully as a soldier, upon his rounds as a candidate for Congress (he was elected four terms) frequently passed through this village and upon one occasion he remarked that all time he passed through he heard the men whistling and the girl singing and suggested that the town should be named Pleasureville, and in view of that it was.” Others tell the area of the herald office housed a bordello (at the site of the future Pleasureville Hotel and a present-day apartment building).

In 1858, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad arrived, but its course ran not quite a mile south of the former community. The say office relocated to the other settlement vis-а-vis the depot in 1874, which usual the name “Pleasureville”, and the former city became known as “North Pleasureville”. It usual a remove post office below that declare in 1879. The town and city merged in 1962, although the two halves are nevertheless sometimes called “North Town” and “South Town” by locals.