Biohazard Cleanup Near Pendleton Historic District Pendleton, IN

Pendleton is a town in Fall Creek Township, Madison County, in central Indiana, built along the falls of Fall Creek.

Pendleton was Madison County's first settlement and its first county seat; the first settler, John Rogers, arrived near the falls on December 29, 1818.

The town is named for its founder, Thomas Pendleton, and was incorporated as a town in 1854.

Pendleton's population was 4,717 at the 2020 Census, up from 4,253 in 2010, and Census Bureau estimates suggest it has grown rapidly since, passing 5,700 by 2024.

Pendleton has about 2,060 households, and about 73.5% of its homes are owner-occupied (Census Bureau estimates).

The median value of an owner-occupied home in Pendleton is about $248,200 (2020-2024 Census Bureau estimates), reflecting its growth as an Indianapolis-area suburb.

Falls Park, formed in 1918 around the falls on Fall Creek, is Pendleton's signature green space and is home to the Pendleton Historical Museum.

Pendleton was the site of a landmark in American justice: after the March 22, 1824 Fall Creek Massacre, in which Seneca and Miami people were murdered, three white men were tried and hanged in Pendleton in 1825 - the first time white men were executed in the United States for murdering Native Americans.

A marker in Falls Park commemorates that grim milestone with the words: "Three white men were hung here in 1825 for killing Indians."

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke in Pendleton in 1843.