Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
Harmankayası cave and Pekmezkaya hill are ancient cult places in Pelitköy. Some historical objects which were found in Pelitköy are now on display in Burhaniye Museum. Most of Pelitköy's people moved to Lesbos (Greece) after the Balkan Wars or in the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the early 1920s. Alevi, Romani, and Kurdish people also live in Pelitköy. There are ruins in the village common area and, near Çamlık, an old oil factory chimney.