Anne Peden has always lived in Southern Greenville County on property her great-grandfather purchased near the Augusta Road in 1872. An educator and avid local historian, she also has been blessed to drive trails and roads in all fifty states and several foreign countries. Anne serves on the Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission and the boards of the Fork Shoals Historical Society and the Piedmont Historic Preservation Society, and she writes National Register and State Historical Marker applications. With service clubs, she helped author two Arcadia Publishing photographic histories, Fork Shoals and Piedmont.