The Peak Hotel was built in about 1881 by Henry Graves who had purchased some 200 acres of land south of Cobar on the side of a hill known as “The Peak”. The inn was located at what was then the intersection of the roads to Euabalong and Hillston and no doubt saw good trade from passing coaches and travelling miners.
It is doubtful Graves had any idea of the vast wealth he was sitting on, with rich gold-bearing reefs discovered at The Peak in 1888. Graves died just four month later.
The Peak Hotel continued to operate for several more years, but eventually succumbed to the fate of so many country pubs and was destroyed by fire in 1895.
