[5][6] Falmouth, the future county seat, began as a settlement called Forks of Licking, c.

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.

Other schools in the county are Sharp Middle School, named for Phillip Allen Sharp, American geneticist and molecular biologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) and National Medal of Science (2004), located between Falmouth and Butler, Northern Elementary in Butler, and Southern Elementary in Falmouth.

The library provides public access computers with high speed internet and free wifi.

The library also offers copying, a fax service, and a public meeting room that can be reserved.

Pendleton County is home to The Kentucky Wool Festival, Griffin Center Amphitheater, and Kincaid Regional Theatre.