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Pendleton County, West Virginia

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13historic places

—earliest paper

1788formed

6,143pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Franklin, Seneca Rocks, Upper Tract.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for West Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Pendleton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boggs Mill	Seneca Rocks	Building	2004
Bowers House	Sugar Grove	Building	1985
Circleville School	Circleville	Building	1995
Cunningham-Hevener House	Upper Tract	Building	1985
Franklin Historic District	Franklin	District	1986
McCoy House	Franklin	Building	1982
McCoy Mill	Franklin	Building	1986
Old Judy Church	Petersburg	Building	1976
Old Probst Church	Brandywine	Building	1986
Pendleton County Poor Farm	Upper Tract	Building	1986
Pitsenbarger, Ananais, Farm	Franklin	District	2011
Priest Mill	Franklin	Building	2000
Sites Homestead	Seneca Rocks	Building	1993

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pendleton was formed in 1788 (1788-05-01) from Augusta, Hardy, Rockingham.

PENDLETON created by Virginia from AUGUSTA, HARDY and ROCKINGHAM.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Pendleton County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,452	3,962	4,846	6,940	6,164	8,022	9,167	9,652	10,884	9,313	8,093	7,910	8,196	6,143

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Burns Cemetery	38.70323	-79.42999
Dice Cemetery	38.68818	-79.19614
Fairview Bethel Cemetery	38.68983	-79.19642
Hinkle Cemetery	38.659	-79.23739
North Fork Memorial Cemetery	38.74769	-79.41628
Pine Hill Cemetery	38.62094	-79.24115
Simmons Cemetery	38.73247	-79.44696
Totten Cemetery	38.47668	-79.42914

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Key	38.7715	-79.3956

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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