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English: This is a locator map showing Pendleton County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Pendleton County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 6,143, [ 1 ] making it the second-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Franklin . [ 2 ]
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
The court convened in the old Presbyterian Church (today the Walnut Street United Methodist Church) until the present, fourth courthouse was completed in 1925. Designed by the Snyder Brothers of Keyser, West Virginia, the new courthouse cost $62,577.00 to erect. [29] The Pendleton County Courthouse is an example of Colonial Revival Style.
Circleville is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. [2] Circleville was originally named Zirkleville after John Zirkle, who ran a dry goods store in the town. [3] [4] The old Circleville School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [5]
Two local structures — the Cunningham-Hevener House and the Pendleton County Poor Farm — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] Upper Tract is notable as one of the driest places in the United States east of the Mississippi River, owing to an isolated rain shadow from Spruce Knob to the west. [4]
US 33 crossing the Ohio River on the Ravenswood Bridge, viewed from Ravenswood, with the Ohio bank of the river in the distance Seneca Rocks, along US 33 in Pendleton County, West Virginia (Wood engraving "The Cliffs of Seneca" by David H.Strother, published in 1872) US 33 passes through Judy Gap (center), after descending the Allegheny Front (background; highest point is Spruce Knob) View ...