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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 ]
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In West Virginia, the county is the unit of government, although an unsuccessful attempt to introduce the township system was made in West Virginia's first constitution. Each of the state's 55 counties has a county commission , consisting of three commissioners elected for six years but with terms so arranged that one is up for reelection every ...
District 11 covers all of Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, and Webster Counties, as well as some of southern Grant County, in the eastern part of the state. Communities within the district include Richwood , Summersville , Craigsville , Webster Springs , Marlinton , Buckhannon , Elkins , Franklin , and Petersburg .
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.
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]
It has a post office with a ZIP Code of 26866. The community took its name from a nearby 18th-century pioneer settlement. [2] Two local structures — the Cunningham-Hevener House and the Pendleton County Poor Farm — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]
Pendleton County Schools is the operating school district within Pendleton County, West Virginia. It is governed by the Pendleton County Board of Education.