City Directories and History: This is reported to be the first home built in the community of Peak about 1851. The town fires of 1902 and 1952 destroyed most of the older building in town.
John Hopkins Williams and the Rudds lived not far from Chappells and were all men of wealth. Indeed all the upper part of the county from the Saluda to the Rich Hill place, lately owned by Mr. F. H. Dominick, was once in the early days of the county and until the war of Secession one of the fairest, richest and loveliest parts of the county, or of the State, or of the world.
(Information from: The Annals of Newberry Co., SC – O’Neall and Chapman, Aull and Houseal Publishers – 1892)
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