March 23, 1853                Wire Suspension Bridge over Licking River, at Falmouth, completed; span 323 feet, width 16 feet, total length 432 feet, height of towers 30 feet.

March 10, 1854                Suspension bridge at Falmouth rendered impassable for several weeks [by "remarkably heavy rains for 48 hours."  "higher than since 1800."]

March 28, 1859              Silver ore discovered on Willow Creek, four miles from Falmouth, in Pendleton County.

July 16, 1862                   Arrests of citizens charged with "disloyalty" increasing; 27 of "the wealthiest and most influential citizens (rebels) of Grant and Pendleton counties  captured and taken to Camp Chase.  A fine haul of 35 secesh prisoners picked up in Grant, Pendleton, Owen, and Harrison, quartered temporarily in Newport Barracks. . . .Such are the reports from the Louisville papers.

August 15, 1862              [The citizens arrested in the above item write to the Kentucky governor, noting they were law abiding citizens, had broken no laws, and had not been given a trial, and pled for release.  The nine from Pendleton County were:  Geo. L. Abernathy, Jas. Williams, Jas. H. Cleveland, Samuel Brock, S. S. Slater, Jas. A. Blackburn, Asa Tomlin, Henry Nunamaker, and J. T. Blackburn.]

September 18, 1862      Skirmish at Falmouth between 11 home guards and 28 Texas Rangers; the latter driven off, with 2 killed, 4 wounded, and 1 prisoner; they threatened to return with cannon and demolish the house which the former occupied, and burnt the railroad bridge; the home guard prudently retreated several miles towards Cincinnati, and sent for reinforcement.

January 10, 1869         70 houses erected in Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., during the past year, and 32 in Falmouth, Pendleton Co.

January 31, 1870        Death, on South Licking, near4 Falmouth, Pendleton Co., aged 99, of Abraham Turner; he had removed in 1794  from Virginia to the farm on which he died, and where he had lived 76 years.

August 1, 1871             On he farm, near Morgan, Pendleton co., of John Hart are now growing some stalks of timothy 6 feet 4 1/2 inches high, clover 4 feet 8 1/2 inches high, and corn  13 feet 8 1/2 inches, with three good ears on each.