Talk:Peach Creek/@comment-68.147.45.66-20130615153657

Well, I'm surprised that not much talk has been on the history of Peach Creek.

Here's my theory;

In the late 1800s, Peach Creek was built as a mining town on the site of Eddy's Ancestor's fort. Much of the town's intercity needs were satisfied by the railways (which ran through the Mountain Ways). Perhaps the Great Northern Railway ran through the area. After World War II however, the mine was shut down, but by that point, highways and suburbs had become popular (thanks to the GI Bill, the Baby Boom, cheaper gas prices, etc.), and Peach Creek's proximity to Seattle and other towns made it an ideal residence for motor commuters, so as a result, Peach Creek adopted many of the traits of suburbia (rows of nigh-identical houses, adults absent during most of the day, etc.). By this time, passenger rail service had stopped (whether that was before or after Amtrak came about in 1971 is unknown), but the tracks up to the mine remain. Some parts of the old mining town remain (The Old Abandoned House, for instance), and the grid layout of the streets nearer the centre of the town is also a carryover from those days. However, some developments have been suffering from the post-2000 demographic shift from the suburbs back to the inner city (the reason the Construction Site remains incomplete). Despite the fact that Peach Creek isn't technically a suburb, the residents of The Cul-de-Sac refer to it that way because of its current demographic. Yet the current demographic shift, and the few remnants of the old mining town make Peach Creek a sort of paradox between the motor-freindly and the pedestrian-freindly town.

Whew! Well, what do you say to that?