Pendleton County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,143, making it the second-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Franklin. The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist. Pendleton County was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War; however, there were pockets of Unionists who supported the state government in Wheeling.
Franklin is a town in and the county seat of Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 486 at the 2020 census. Franklin was established in 1794 and named for Francis Evick, an early settler.
Dahmer is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. Established in 1896, Dahmer is the only place in the United States bearing this name. Its post office was discontinued December 1, 1941.
Upper Tract is an unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States.
John Strother Pendleton, nicknamed "The Lone Star", was a nineteenth-century congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer from Virginia.
Locust Hill is an early 19th-century Federal-style mansion north of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Locust Hill was the home of John Thomson Mason, a prominent American jurist and Attorney General of Maryland in 1806 and nephew of Founding Father of the United States George Mason.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pendleton County, West Virginia.
Ashtabula is a plantation house at 2725 Old Greenville Highway near Pendleton in Anderson County, South Carolina, USA. It has been also known as the Gibbes-Broyles-Latta-Pelzer House or some combination of one or more of these names. It was named in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on March 23, 1972. It is considered a significant example of a Lowcountry style plantation house built for a Charleston family in the Upstate in the early 19th century. It also is part of the Pendleton Historic District.
Linville is a Census-designated place located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located 6 miles north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is for the first time listed as CDP for the United States Census 2020. It contains the Linville United Church of Christ.
Pendleton Heights, also known as the William K. Pendleton House and Christman Manor at Pendleton Heights, is a historic home located on the campus of Bethany College, at Bethany, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was built in 1841, as a small, box like dwelling. It was altered in 1872 by college president William K. Pendleton to take on a Gothic Revival-style of architecture like other buildings on campus. It is a two-story brick residence with characteristic steep gable roofs and arched windows.
Cuckoo is a Federal style house in the small community of Cuckoo, Virginia near Mineral, Virginia, built in 1819 for Henry Pendleton. Cuckoo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 19, 1994. The house is prominently sited on U.S. Route 33, which curves around the house. Cuckoo's interior retains Federal detailing alongside Colonial Revival elements from the early 20th century. The house is notable for its design, prominence and its association with the Pendleton family of doctors. The house was named for the Cuckoo Tavern, which stood nearby from 1788. It has been in the Pendleton family since its construction.
Circleville School is a historic school building located at Circleville, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was designed by architect Ernest C. S. Holmboe and built in 1937–1938, as a project of the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). The two-story masonry building is in the Georgian Revival style. It was built on the foundation of a previous school destroyed by fire. The front facade features a two-story pedimented projecting pavilion emphasized by large Doric order pilasters. It is constructed of hollow tile block with a red brick veneer. The truncated hipped roof is topped by a wooden cupola.
McCoy Mill is a historic grist mill on U.S. Highway 220, three miles south of Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built in 1845, and has a late 19th- to early 20th-century addition. It replaced a mill that operated on the site as early as 1766. It is a 2½-story, T-shaped frame building. General William McCoy (1768-1835) owned an earlier mill on the site.
Priest Mill is a historic sawmill and early electric power plant located near Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built in 1900, with an addition built in 1916 to house a generator and hydro-electric power plant. Electric power was generated at the mill starting in 1911, and in 1913, the Priest's home became the first in Pendleton County to have electric lights. It replaced a mill that was destroyed by fire in 1899. It is a three-story, T-shaped, unadorned wooden structure. Originally covered with wood shingles, the roof was later replaced with metal. The mill race measures 988 feet from the headgates at the dam to the entrance under the mill. It operated as a wool carding mill until the 1950s, and reopened in the 1980s.
Bowers House is a historic home located at Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built in 1898 and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features two asymmetrical polygonal towers, contrasting wood siding in a herringbone pattern, projecting gables and bays, and large brackets with contrasting color schemes.
Cunningham-Hevener House is a historic home located at Upper Tract, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built about 1880, and is a two-story, T-shaped Greek Revival / Italian Villa style masonry dwelling. It features a full width, two-story porch supported by Ionic order columns.
Pendleton County Poor Farm is a historic poor farm house located at Upper Tract, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built about 1900, and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story frame building. It features a full width front porch and hipped roof with dormers.
Franklin Historic District is a national historic district located at Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 111 contributing buildings, mostly residences. It also includes the central business district, much of it rebuilt after a fire in 1924. Most of the residences are in the Queen Anne or American Foursquare style, with commercial Greek Revival and Italianate-style buildings. Notable buildings include an early 19th-century, stuccoed stone farmhouse and barn, five Queen Anne style dwellings, and the Pendleton County Court House (1924-1925). Also located in the district is the separately listed McCoy House.
Ananias Pitsenbarger Farm is an historic home and farm complex located in the unincorporated community of Dahmer, near Franklin, Pendleton County, West Virginia. The original section of the house was built in 1845, and includes the 2+1⁄2-story section on the north end, with a later 1+1⁄2-story addition built about 1900. The house rests on a foundation of coursed rubble stone and is clad in weatherboard siding. It has a standing-seam metal gable roof. Also on the property are 15 log and frame contributing outbuildings. They include the cellar house, two hog pens, a stable, woodworking shop, carriage house, chicken coop, granary, shed, privy constructed by the Works Progress Administration, spring house, three small hay barns, and a large double-crib log hay barn. Also on the property is the Pitsenbarger Cemetery.
The Willis House is a historic residence in Encampment, Wyoming, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
