Ebbie, I didn't know that. I planted a peach tree in my back yard (not next to the house) in the 1980s. That year or the next it bore 3 peached.   (I waited 1 day too long in letting them ripen on the three, and someone took all 3 the night before I was going to pick them.) The next year it died, apparently due to the combination of a dry summer and a pretty cold winter. I'm kind of surprised the Willamette Valley can grow a decent crop of peaches. But maybe there are varieties specially grown for this area.

I think the fact that mine started as a volunteer, and then survived the first winter on its own, may signal that it was a pretty viable peach pit to start with.