Mount Pleasant is a large suburban town in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. In the Low Country, it is the fourth largest municipality and largest town in South Carolina, and for several years was one of the state’s fastest-growing areas, doubling in population together with 1990 and 2000. The population was 90,801 at the 2020 census. The estimated population in 2019 was 91,684.

At the foot of the Arthur Ravenel Bridge is Patriots Point, a naval and maritime museum, home to the World War II plane carrier USS Yorktown, which is now a museum ship. The Ravenel Bridge, an eight-lane highway that was completed in 2005, spans the Cooper River and associates Mount Pleasant similar to the city of Charleston.

The site of Mount Pleasant was originally occupied by the Sewee people, an Algonquian language-speaking tribe. The first European settlers arrived from England upon July 6, 1680, under the leadership of Captain Florentia O’Sullivan. Captain O’Sullivan had been granted 2,340 acres (950 ha), which included not unaided the island later named for him, but moreover the forward-thinking site of Mount Pleasant. On the antiquated map of the time, this Place was called “North Point”.

In 1696, 51 new settlers arrived. Each intimates was allotted several hundred acres in the Place that became known as Christ Church parish. In 1706 the Province of Carolina withstood several attacks by the Spanish and the French from their settlements to the south and were victorious in defeating French invaders in an area known as “Abcaw”.