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Falmouth / History / Pendleton County / Wool

Wool, Mills & the Hills: How Falmouth Farmers Wove More

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On October 19, 2025

There’s always more to the story than what makes the papers. Before any flood, before the big disasters, Falmouth was already hustling, not just with plows in the fields, but with sheep on the ridges and machinery clanking in town. […]

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Clover / Farmers / History / Pendleton County / Tobacco

From Tobacco to Clover: The Real History of Farming in Falmouth

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On October 12, 2025

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 […]

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Falmouth / History

Falmouth Considers Removing Historic Overlay

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 30, 2025

On Thursday October 2, 2025 Falmouth City Council has on its agenda the second reading to remove the historic overlay designation from parts of the zoning map. This is both a subtle and a huge change for a town to […]

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History / Williamstown

Williamstown 1924: When the Hood Met Resistance

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 24, 2025

Some stories don’t get passed down because they’re uncomfortable. But that’s exactly why they should be. Williamstown, Kentucky,1924. The Klan was in town. Not in whispers. Not in rumors. Out in the open. The 1920s Klan wasn’t just burning crosses […]

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Falmouth / History / Licking River

How flatboats, whiskey, and hard miles shaped early Falmouth

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 21, 2025

How flatboats, whiskey, and hard miles shaped early Falmouth Before the railroad ever whistled through town, before the courthouse clock ticked off Main Street’s rhythm, Falmouth’s future floated. Not in blueprints or election slogans, but on flatboats. Back then, the […]

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Cynthiana / History

Cynthiana. Where the Rails Met the River and a Town Took Root

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 19, 2025

Cynthiana came together where the river bends, the tracks run straight, and two sisters’ names blended into one. There’s a quiet charm to this place. A kind of rhythm that never quite left, even as the steam engines faded and […]

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History / KY

Before it was Butler, it was Fourth Lock

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 15, 2025

Some towns are born on battlefield deeds. Others? A train whistle, a river lock, and a name that stuck harder than it should’ve. Before it was Butler, it was Fourth Lock, named for the ambitious but half-failed navigation system they […]

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History / Williamstown

William Arnold Settled Williamstown

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 15, 2025

Before there was a town, there was a man. And before the name “Williamstown” echoed across Grant County hills, the land knew only trees, grit, and a Revolutionary War vet who refused to play small. William Arnold wasn’t born in […]

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Fair / Falmouth / History

The Falmouth Fair: Our Forgotten Festival

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On September 14, 2025

In 1879, before the world had wires in its sky or engines on its roads, Falmouth lit up with something that would become more than an event, it was a beating heart of Pendleton County: The Falmouth Fair. For nearly […]

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Falmouth / History / Retaliation

Racial Flashpoint Turns Deadly

Chris Collins - Whisper One Posted On August 31, 2025

In August 1881, Falmouth found itself at the center of a racial flashpoint that nearly turned deadly. A Black man named Dick Coleman was arrested and charged with the murder of 12-year-old Mary Ball, a white girl whose body was […]

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