Pendleton County Links, Pendleton County, Kentucky

For a textual history of various Pendleton county Communities, you'll want to go here, to
"The First 200 Years of Pendleton County" by Mildred Bowen Belew

Pendleton County was formed from Campbell and Bracken Counties; it
was created on December 13, 1798. It was Kentucky's 28th county, and
named after Edmond Pendleton. There's a bio of him here.

In 1876, the R. L. Polk Company published The Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, which listed information about virtually every town in Kentucky. The listings from Pendleton County are these:

Boston Station	Butler	Catawba
DeMossville	Falmouth	Gardnersville
Knoxville	Levengood	Morgan
Motier		Peach Grove

An earlier Gazetteer published in Louisville, was George W. Hawes’ Kentucky
State Gazetteer and Business Directory, for 1859 and 1860. It's pre-Civil
War, but only has detail on these two towns:

In 1908, the Falmouth Outlook published a selection of letters to Santa. Some are here.

The Kenton County Public Library's Places and Faces: Northern Kentucky Photographic Archive is on line here. They say there are 7,000 photo's here, and they're aiming for 30,000. You'll need to search for Pendleton or Falmouth.

Emma McClanahan noted in 1934 that Pendleton County, in 1910, had 3,108
colonies of bees, and that by 1927 that number had grown to 20,000, with
annual honey shipments amounting to 2,000,000 pounds.

This list of Pendleton County deaths from WWII is from
the National Archives. There's a key to what the
various abbreviations mean here, and the actual list is here.

Information on the six covered bridges that used to serve in Pendleton County are listed in the data base at web site of Kentucky Covered Bridges, here. Several have pictures, too.

The Kentuckiana Digital Library has a number of Pendleton
County images. Quality is erratic, but it's worth a look, here.

The Kentucky Historical Society's Pendleton County images can
be found here. Click on the county search box when you get there.

The Falmouth Outlook is on line here.

You can buy their Forks of the Licking Bicentennial Edition history and picture book of Pendleton County by calling them at (859) 654-3332, or mailing a check to them at 210 Main St. in Falmouth. Only $25.45, and that includes postage. Recommended.

Every county in America was supposed to write its history for America's
Centennial in 1876. Some did; some didn't. Pendleton County did. It's here.

In 1969, Edna Talbott Whitley compiled a list of Cabinetmakers
in Kentucky. The Pendleton County portion of that list is here.

Covington's Mary Ann Mongren Library has one of those "Wow!" features online. If, after going here, and entering Falmouth, Butler, or whatever, you sometimes - not always - get back actual links to high quality images of Northern Kentucky Newspapers from the 1800's. I find it more helpful to sort them by the oldest article first. They're pdf images. There's a feature in your Adobe pdf viewer that let's you magnify the images. Play with it - I think you'll find it a great feature, and you'll be surprised at how much information from "outside I-275" is in the early Covington and Newport papers.

In October of 1926, the Cincinnati Auto Club suggests this route from Cincinnati, through Kenton, Boone, Grant, Pendleton, Campbell and back to Cincinnati.

"Falmouth, Pendleton County, is one of the old towns, dating from 1790, and claims something like two thousand people. Pendleton is called 'the county which came back,' as some years ago, on account of the worn-out condition of the soil, about a third of the population moved away. Then sweet clover was planted, the bees came and founded a great honey-making colony, dairying developed, and the county and county seat were reinstated on the map." from Samuel Wilson's History of Kentucky.

In 1914, here’s what the L&N’s Industrial Freight and Shipper’s Guide had to say about:

More about Pendleton County's Dr. Phillip Sharp, Northern
Kentucky's only winner of the Nobel Prize, here.

The First Annual Report of the Banking Commissioner of Kentucky listed
Statements as of June 04, 1913 for:

Butler

Pendleton County

Falmouth

You can edit them, on-line, if you like.

On March 23, 1826, a Kentucky representative, Mr. James Johnson, submitted
a resolution that the military build an armory at Horse Shoe Bend, in Pendleton
County, Kentucky. Read it, and read about it, here.

A 87 year old man pays $3 alimony, and, a lamb with 8 legs:
both in the 1909 society column, here.

The number of one room schools in Pendleton County for
the 1909-1910 school year? 45. There's a complete list, here.

James Bradley, once a slave in Pendleton County, wrote an account,
in 1834, of how he worked to buy himself out of slavery. Read it here.

Members of the Free & Accepted Masons (F. & A.M. )
Lodges in Pendleton County, in 1885 are here:

In 1919, there was a farm census, counting livestock, crops and farms. Pendleton County's is here.

Falmouth's Frank Browning played for the Detroit
Tigers in 1910. His record is here.

There are a number of good links to historical
Pendleton County on their Roots Web site, here.

You can get information on Pendleton County ancestors by subscribing
to the mailing list created for that purpose. You'll get periodic
information, and can submit your own questions, all via email.
Sign up here for Pendleton County.
Here is a list of all available lists on Kentucky.

A site that has post a lot of older high school yearbooks
of Kentucky schools is here. They invite your scans.

Can you name the fifty-five (55!) town names in Pendleton
County that have had US post offices? That list is here.

This Pendleton County Map is from 1931, and these are
very large, but very detailed images. In four parts.

	This graph shows the relative populations of the eight smaller counties of Northern Kentucky Views, from 1800 to 2000.
	This graph shows the relative populations of the Boone, Kenton & Campbell Counties from 1800 to 2000.
	This graph shows the relative populations of the Boone, Kenton, Mason & Campbell Counties from 1800 to 1860, along with Jefferson and Fayette, just for reference.


These two charts both present slave population from Northern Kentucky. On the left is actual populations; on the left, is the number of slaves as a percentage of total population. Remember some counties were established later than others. More on these numbers, including a link to the mega-load of population data, is here.

The Farmers Bank of Morgan	The Citizens Bank of Falmouth
The Butler Deposit Bank	The Pendleton Bank [Falmouth]