January 2, 1776 was not the day the world changed.But it was the day it stood still long enough for men to realize change was inevitable. Washington steadied the troops. Thomas Paine prepared his firebrand words in Common Sense.And a […]
Where Geography Made the CallFalmouth didn’t become important because someone declared it so. It became important because of where it sat. By the early 1800s, the settlement that would become Falmouth occupied a rare geographic position at the confluence of […]
“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 […]
Before cell phones, before rotary dials, and even before most homes had private lines, there was the switchboard. And in Falmouth, Kentucky, it wasn’t automation that connected calls. It was real people. More specifically, it was young women seated behind […]
A River That Once Worked There was a time when the river that runs through Pendleton County was more than just scenery. It was a resource, a living harvest. From the late 1800s through the early 1900s, the Licking River […]
Before Facebook. Before car lots. Before somebody charged you $2,000 over blue book.We had the Jockey Ring. That’s what they called it. Not a shop. Not a business. Just a circle of dirt between Main Street and the Main Licking […]
Why Pendleton’s Future Rests on Industry and Unity Let’s be blunt. Pendleton County is not going to grow by accident. Not anymore. Not after decades of outmigration, closed storefronts, and big ideas that never quite made it off the drawing […]
The Lead Up: Mounting Pressure in Dairy Falmouth’s Milk Dump Protest and the Decline of Kentucky’s Dairy Era By the early 1960s, dairy farmers across Kentucky were feeling squeezed. Costs for feed, fuel, labor, and equipment kept rising, while the […]
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, […]
