 The strike in Morewood, west of Mount Pleasant borough, was the most violent of the area's strikes, in which nine miners were killed by sheriff's deputies on April 3, 1891.Mount Pleasant was disadvantaged when the main lines of the railroads bypassed the community in the 1850s.The community's isolation lessened in 1871 with the opening of the "Mount Pleasant and Broadford Railroad", later part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.