PLEASANT POINT was the  name of the community of ALEMAN from its founding before 1880 until 1907. Pleasant Point was located about a mile south of ALEMAN. The new location initially was called PIGGTOWN before it became Aleman. With the installation of the Cotton Belt Railroad to Hamilton in 1907, the Pleasant Point community moved to the railroad. Mexican laborers employed to lay the railroad track called the new community Aleman--the Spanish word meaning German.