Detroit Free Press , October 3, 1864 While some internet sites state that Pike's Peak came into being in 1882, they're wrong. Not only that but Pike's Peak and Perrinsville existed at the same time as attested to in this article from 1864. Pike's Peak is noted to be a city of no "magnificent distances" with stumps barely cleared and it used to have a store on Broadway Street (I think they are implying Main St.). A large crowd of 1,200-1,500 assembled from Perrinsville, Pike's Peak and Plymouth , which brought a band, to meet in a barn to hear political speeches by Hon. Levi Bishop, M. W. Reynolds and J. D. Weir, among others. They praised the defunct Whig Party, lambasted the Republicans and the National Union Party (Lincoln Republicans) of Lincoln and neglected to mention the Democrats entirely so I'm not sure who they were for. I guess I'll have to track down the election results. Not that I'm all that concerned being more interested in the...