Following the 1815 founding of the Pendleton Farmer?s Society, the group decided to construct the first ever permanent farmer?s society hall in the US.

The Farmer?s Society Hall is a historic building in Pendleton, South Carolina. It was built in 1828, initially to serve as a courthouse. The organization bought the new courthouse, which was made possible by the splitting up of the Pendleton District into two, between the Anderson and Pickens counties.
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he farmer?s Society Hall marks the legacy of the Pendleton Farmer?s Society. They were formed to improve the local agricultural practices, and mostly to gather the elite and powerful local planters and landowners. Membership was based on land ownership, social and political prominence, and slave holdings.