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Pendleton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,877.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21191.html )〕 Its county seat is Falmouth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was founded December 31, 1798,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PENDLETON COUNTY )〕 Pendleton County is included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. == History == Pendleton County was created from parts of Campbell and Bracken counties in 1798. The county was named after Edmund Pendleton, a longtime member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Continental Congress and chief justice of Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=mypendleton.com )〕 Falmouth, the future county seat, began as a settlement called Forks of Licking, ''circa'' 1776.〔"Place Names of Pendleton County: Falmouth," ''Northern Kentucky Views: a broad collection of images and texts on the history of Northern Kentucky,'' http://www.nkyviews.com/pendleton/text/text_place_names.htm, Original source E. E. Barton, typescript, 1941; Paul T. Hellmann, ''Historical Gazetteer of the United States'' (New York: Routledge, 2005): 248.〕 It was the site of the Battle of Blue Licks during the Revolutionary War. Native Americans who were helping the British ambushed Kentuckians on August 19, 1782 on the Licking River. In a matter of fifteen minutes, 60 were killed.〔Hellmann, 248.〕 Falmouth was chartered in 1793. Its name originated from the Virginians who settled there from Falmouth, Virginia.〔Lewis Collins, ''Historical Sketches of Kentucky,'' (Maysville, KY: Lewis Collins, 1848): 494.〕 It was also in 1793 that one of the first sawmills in Kentucky was built in Falmouth.〔 Falmouth was designated the county seat in 1799.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=National Association of Counties (NACo) )〕 The county courthouse was erected in 1848.〔 During the American Civil War, the county sent men to both armies. A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861. Two Confederate recruiters were captured and executed by the Union Army in the Peach Grove area of northern Pendleton County. In July 1862, a number of county citizens were rounded up by Union troops during a crackdown against suspected Confederate sympathizers. In June 1863, a number of women were arrested at Demossville because they were believed to be potential spies dangerous to the Federal government. Falmouth was the site of a small skirmish on September 18, 1862, between twenty-eight Confederates and eleven Home Guardsmen. The city of Butler was established ''circa'' 1852 when the Kentucky Central Railroad was built through the area. The city was named for William O. Butler, U.S. congressman from the area, when it was incorporated on February 1, 1868. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pendleton County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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