• John Waller from Falmouth, Virginia, formally established Falmouth in 1793.
• Before the city was incorporated, the settlement was located at the Forks of the Licking.
• In 1967, dairy farmers dumped 31,000 pounds, or 3,600 gallons, of milk in protest of price gouging and not being able to make a living from milk.
• The Wool Festival started in 1983, drawing in about 15,000 people.
• Back in the “sin city” days of Newport, Falmouth was a popular place for gangsters to visit. It was even nicknamed “Little Newport.”
• The “King of the Bootleggers,” George Remus, is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Falmouth, KY.
• One of the aunts in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, played by actress Beth Broderick, is from Falmouth, KY.
• Other notable figures are Samuel Thomas Hauser, who became a governor of Montana, and Phillip Allen Sharp, for his work on DNA structures.
• In the horror movie The Strangers: Prey at Night, Kincaid Lake State Park in Falmouth was one of the filming locations.
• In 1968, Falmouth had an F4 tornado; it destroyed 180 houses and damaged another 380.
• Shelby Avenue used to be named Main-Cross St.; it was changed in 1914.
• Cyn Pike, or Cynthiana Pike, was renamed to Main St.
• Falmouth became a town soon after the Revolutionary War, in 1792; it is older than Cincinnati.
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