Editing Pendleton County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Pendleton County was created from parts of [[Campbell County, Kentucky|Campbell]] and [[Bracken County, Kentucky|Bracken]] counties in 1798.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins, Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZFQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA26 |title=Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, Volume 2 |publisher=Collins & Company |year=1882 |pages=26}}</ref> The county was named after [[Edmund Pendleton]], a longtime member of the [[Virginia House of Burgesses]], the [[Continental Congress]] and chief justice of [[Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neighborhood History: Pendleton County |url=http://www.mypendleton.com/index.php?pageId=270797 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216021532/http://mypendleton.com/index.php?pageId=270797 |archive-date=February 16, 2006 |publisher=mypendleton.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ |title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1 |publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society |year=1903 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n36 36]}}</ref>

Falmouth, the future county seat, began as a settlement called Forks of Licking, {{circa}} 1776.<ref name="Hellmann, 248">Hellmann, 248.</ref>

Falmouth was chartered in 1793. Its name originated from the Virginians who settled there from Falmouth, Virginia.<ref>Lewis Collins, ''Historical Sketches of Kentucky'', (Maysville, KY: Lewis Collins, 1848): 494.</ref> It was also in 1793 that one of the first sawmills in Kentucky was built in Falmouth.<ref name="Hellmann, 248" /> Falmouth was designated the county seat in 1799.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Find A County |url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/NACo_FindACounty.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804201755/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/NACo_FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=August 4, 2010 |website=National Association of Counties (NACo)}}</ref> The county courthouse was erected in 1848.<ref name="Hellmann, 248" />

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 States of America|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 of the United States|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.