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'''Pendleton Hill''' is an area in ], ]. It was home to the Pendleton family which included prominent citizens and state legislators. The ] passes through. ] had a farm in Pendleton Hill. Luther Palmer was Pendleton Hill's postmaster.<ref name=nr>https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/d575699e-1cc5-4d7c-be0d-a984211cb33c</ref> According to a poem in the ] family history published in 1881 from its reunion, the hill was originally known as '''Pauchunganuc'''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUVEAAAAMAAJ&dq=pauchunganuc&pg=PA85 | title=Volume No. 1 of Palmer Records: Proceedings, or Memorial Volume of the First Palmer Family Re-union Held at Stonington, Conn., August 10 & 11, 1881, the Ancestral Home of Walter Palmer, the Pilgrim of 1629. Being Also a Part of the Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Records of the Family, as Contained in the Several Addresses, Etc. Delivered on the Occasion of the Re-union | last1=Palmer | first1=Noyes Fink | date=1881 }}</ref> Another account gives various alternate spellings and ascribes to name to a story involving a large boulder in the area.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RftDAAAAYAAJ&dq=pauchunganuc&pg=PA32 | title=A Memorial of Albert Gallatin Palmer, D.D.,: Preacher, Pastor, Poet, Scholar | last1=Hiscox | first1=Edward Thurston | date=1894 }}</ref> The view was lauded and the rock noted in a 1935 guide to connecticut.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngQMAAAAYAAJ&q=pauchunganuc | title=The Connecticut Guide: What to See and where to Find it | date=1935 }}</ref> |
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It is topped by Pendleton Hill Church and surrounded by farmland. Pendleton Hill Baptist Church was established in 1743.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yYf2whjlj0EC&dq=%22pendleton+hill%22+connecticut&pg=PA147 |title=The Pastor Has Gorgeous Legs: A Memoir of an Ordinary Pastor on an Extraordinary Journey Who Met Exceptional People |first=Lynne C. |last=Holden |date=June 15, 2011 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=978-1-4567-6533-0 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The current Pendleton Hill Baptist Church was built in 1830.<ref>https://www.fbcofnorthstonington.com/History</ref><ref>baptisthistoryhomepage.com/ct.stngtn.hist.html</ref> The church was built on land donated by Luther Palmer whose Pauchunganuc Farm was opposite it. The farm was acquired from ] by Gershom Palmer in 1711. Captain ] is a family member.<ref name=nr/> ] is listed on the ].<ref>https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/d575699e-1cc5-4d7c-be0d-a984211cb33c</ref> |
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== History == |
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Pendleton Hill is named for ] (1779-1827) who farmed there, served in the state militia, served in the Connecticut legislature, raised a family there, and died there.<ref name=bri>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6b8OAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22pendleton+hill%22+connecticut&pg=PA319 |title=Brian Pendleton and His Descendants 1599-1910 |first=Everett Hall |last=Pendleton |date=November 24, 1910 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=978-5-87738-340-1 |via=Google Books}}</ref> ]'s family lived there and he was born there.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vN1m_ilxOr8C&dq=pendleton+hill+connecticut&pg=PA69 |title=The American Government ...: Biographies of members of the House of representatives of the Forty-third Congress |first=William Horatio |last=Barnes |date=November 24, 1874 |publisher=Nelson & Phillips |via=Google Books}}</ref> Actor, playwright, and director ] had farmland in Pendleton Hill. There is a Pendleton Hill Road and a Pendleton Hill Brook. There is a monitoring station on it. Etymologists are amused that the segments of the name come from words meaning hill so Pendelton Hill can be translated to mean hill hill hill hill.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.etymologynerd.com/blog/hill-hill-hill-hill |title=HILL HILL HILL HILL |website=THE ETYMOLOGY NERD}}</ref> |
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], another son of Nathan Pendleton, became a state senator in Rhode Island and attended the first ]. President ] appointed him postmaster of Westerly.<ref name=bri/> State legislator ] (1812-1872), son of Nathan Pendleton, was born in Pendleton Hill.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6b8OAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22pendleton+hill%22+connecticut&pg=PA319 |title=Brian Pendleton and His Descendants 1599-1910 |first=Everett Hall |last=Pendleton |date=November 24, 1910 |publisher=Рипол Классик |isbn=978-5-87738-340-1 |via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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Totten had a kennel and raised horses and cows on his 47 acre Pendleton Hill farm.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnhJAQAAMAAJ&dq=Joe+Byron+Totten%C2%A0&pg=PA257 |title=Nickelodeon |date=November 24, 1915 |via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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Anna Coit left money to help maintain Panguhanux??? Farm and stipulated plans for its weathervane in her will. The property was in the Palmer family from 1711.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2014/12/07/among-centenarians-gifts-body-goes-medicine/20063103/ | title=Among centenarian's gifts, body goes to medicine }}</ref> |
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==Geography== |
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Pendleton Hill Road connects it to ]. |
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There is a Pendleton Hill Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&dq=%22pendleton+hill%22+connecticut&pg=PA330 |title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated |first=Thomas E. |last=Spencer |date=November 24, 1998 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=978-0-8063-4823-0 |via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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Pendleton Hill is near the border with Rhode Island.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVoWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22pendleton+hill%22+connecticut&pg=PA7-IA1 |title=Appletons' Atlas of the United States: Consisting of General Maps of the United States and Territories, and a County Map of Each of the States, Together with Descriptive Text Outlining the History, Geography, and Political and Educational Organizations of the States, with Latest Statistics of Their Resources and Industries |first=D. Appleton and |last=Company |date=November 24, 1888 |publisher=D. Appleton |via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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There is a Pendleton Hill Brook. |
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