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Peaster is an unincorporated community in northwestern Parker County, on Farm Road 920 about nine miles northwest of Weatherford.

Settlement began in the 1870s when Georgia native H. H. Peaster bought 160 acres of land and built a house; the community that grew up around his home was originally called Freemont.

In 1885 the community's name was changed to Peasterville, and postal service began during the 1880s.

By the mid-1890s Peaster had over 100 residents served by three churches, a steam-powered cotton gin, a gristmill, a school, and about a half dozen businesses.

Peaster peaked at roughly 300 residents in the mid-1920s, but the Great Depression cut the population below 100; it hovered around 80 residents from 1975 to 1990 and was reported at 102 in 2000.

Throughout the twentieth century Peaster served the surrounding Parker County farmers mainly as a school and church community rather than a commercial center.

Peaster is the birthplace of writer Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian and a founding figure of the sword-and-sorcery genre.