Peak

Peak is a South Carolina historical marker in Peak, Newberry County, dedicated 1999.

Newberry County · dedicated 1999 · in Town Park, Peak, Peak

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This town, founded in 1853 as Peak's Station on the Greenville & Columbia Railroad, was named for railroad superintendent H.T. Peake. In 1865 Federal troops destroyed the tracks here and over the Broad River. Peak, incorporated in 1880, prospered as a railroad town and local center of farming, business, and medical care, in spite of fires in its commercial district in 1909, 1953, and 1978.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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