City Directories and History: A lovely late 19th century home associated with St. Simon’s Episcopal Church at Peak, S.C.
Peak is on the south bank of Broad River, where the Columbia-Greenville branch of the Southern Railway crosses from Fairfield County into the Dutch Fork. It was established about 1850 when that railroad was built. It was named after its first superintendent, H. T. Peak, who established a commissary there. It was called Peak’s Station then, and old-timers still refer to it as that. We lived six miles below there. My father, a country doctor, had two office days a week there, and I often accompanied him.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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Wayne Despres says
Was the house at St. Simon’s Episcopal Church in Peak built before the church? Will funds from some state historic society be allocated to restore the place?