BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Overlook Park in Melbourne isn’t much more than a small parking lot and an even smaller plot of grass but as the saying goes, location is everything.
The park sits on a bluff above the Indian River. It offers a picture-perfect view of the Melbourne Causeway to the south and the Barrier Island across the Indian River.
If you were to go back in time to the 1870s, it would also provide a bird’s-eye view of the legendary “sailing mailman.” [TRENDING: Plan to track COVID-19 variant | NASA prepares to land Mars rover | REWATCH: Town hall on race, obstacles, opportunities] Capt.
Peter Wright was the area’s first mail carrier traveling up and down the river from Titusville to Ft. Pierce in his small sailboat named Nellie.