He later wrote descriptively about this area and his meeting with early pioneers such as lighthouse keeper Mills Burnham of Cape Canaveral in the Florida Star newspaper in 1887.

In a piece for the New York Ledger, Peck also described the opening of the Indian River inlet with the picks and shovels that were available at that time.

Our readers will be gratified to learn of the success in the literary world of our neighbor Professor William Henry Peck who is the author of some of the best and most popular romances of the day.

[1] With his family, he later moved to Merritt Island, Florida, where he owned many acres of citrus groves and started a post office.

His daughter Byrnnia Peck married Edward Postell Porcher in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 15.