Lower Cape Baptist was established in 1825, the first building being the Calkins Meeting House, built at that time. Stretching out behind the church is Mountain View Cemetery, originally known as Calkins Cemetery. It predates that original meeting house by at least 15 years. In the cemetery are just over 450 headstones, many for multiple persons. The name, Calkins Cemetery, comes from the Calkin family, on whose land, presumably, the cemetery was established as a family cemetery.
Near the east-west centre of the cemetery and about 35 metres southeast of the church is this broken column, the headstone of Doctor Alex Peck M.D., a young doctor who died before the age of 30.
The column itself is fluted, as is the norm, and bears a shield for the inscription. It stands on a tall, simple Doric base.
ALEX L. PECK M.D.
BORN
6th OCT. 1846
DIED
22nd SEP. 1873