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4 unusual facts about Pendleton County


Pendleton County, Kentucky

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.

A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861.

Phillip Allen Sharp

Pendleton County, Kentucky — Sharp's birthplace — named its current middle school after him.

Sugar Grove Station

Sugar Grove Station is an American government communications site located near Sugar Grove in Pendleton County, West Virginia operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).


Trichopetalum whitei

The species is recorded from caves in the upper Potomac River drainage in Virginia (Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties) and West Virginia (Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton Counties).


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