“The Crop That Built the County” For over 150 years, tobacco was the economic and cultural cornerstone of Pendleton County. From the early frontier days through New Deal farm policies and the 2004 federal buyout, tobacco defined life for farmers […]
Pendleton County, Kentucky Ordinance 1011.0: The Blueprint for Quiet Property Theft Let’s talk about Pendleton County’s “Nuisance Ordinance.”It’s dressed up like a community cleanliness policy, but when you cut past the boilerplate, it reads more like a land acquisition manual […]
Falmouth’s Dairy Rise, 1920 to 1960s In the decades after World War I, the hills and pastures of Pendleton County quietly shifted gears. What had long been mixed farms, some cattle, some corn, some milk for the family and a […]
Pendleton County’s hills, once considered more burden than blessing, weren’t always the pastoral gem they are today. By the late 1800s, the land was chewed through by decades of row cropping, mostly tobacco, corn, and wheat. The soil was tired, […]
Falmouth’s landscape may look sleepy now, but this land has worked harder than most. Before the Dollar Generals and car washes, before half the storefronts emptied out, this county fed itself and a good chunk of Kentucky, off of what […]
