North Brevard County
North Brevard County

Author: John T. Manning

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738502410

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The early pioneer settlement of LaGrange Community in Brevard County in 1858 pre-dated the missile launches on North Merritt Island by just one hundred years. During that span of time, the northern part of Brevard County underwent significant growth and development-homes were built, land farmed, businesses established, and churches built. The citrus industry provided North Brevard with a productive agricultural economy that remained strong until the advent of the space age. With the federal government's purchase of the land north of the port of Canaveral in the 1950s, the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center was established. Later, when more land was needed, the Kennedy Space Center was built on North Merritt Island. Many North Brevard towns, communities, and homesteads disappeared when the governmental acquisition of land forced residents to relocate, but it was this new era of technology that helped shift North Brevard from the farm age to the space age.

Brevard
Brevard

Author: Susan M. Lefler

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738516127

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Brevard, North Carolina, "land of waterfalls," is tucked into a lush valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Brevard was founded as the county seat of Transylvania County in 1861, the year that North Carolina seceded from the Union. Wealthy families from South Carolina's Lowcountry had long summered in the mountains and, even after the war, the region maintained its powerful pull. The arrival of the railroads brought tourists to Brevard from all over the country-including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone-and the logging industry attracted entrepreneurs who made their fortunes here. Brevard reveals the city's rich heritage through a gallery of images: baptism in an icy river, an ostrich race on Main Street, a moonshine still. In these pages, the reader can visit grist mills, waterfalls, and exquisite hotels, explore the booming logging industry, relive parades and downtown scenes, and read the intriguing stories of local folks.

Explorer's Guide Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach & Florida's Space Coast: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations)
Explorer's Guide Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach & Florida's Space Coast: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations)

Author: Dianne Marcum

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2011-02-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1581579365

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Explore Brevard County with this updated edition of the definitive guidebook to the area. Visitors and residents alike will enjoy exploring Brevard County, a recreational paradise where the high-tech space program exists alongside amazing natural areas like the Indian River Lagoon estuary—the most diverse marine estuary in the U.S. Comprehensive listings make this your most informative and entertaining vacation-planning tool.

Florida's Space Coast
Florida's Space Coast

Author: William Barnaby Faherty

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9780813025636

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The author recreates the history of Florida's "Space Coast," revealing how science and government conspired to reshape this piece of the state's Western shoreline permanently. (Science & Mathematics)

North Brevard County
North Brevard County

Author: John T. Manning

Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

Published: 1999-10

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781531601584

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The early pioneer settlement of LaGrange Community in Brevard County in 1858 pre-dated the missile launches on North Merritt Island by just one hundred years. During that span of time, the northern part of Brevard County underwent significant growth and development-homes were built, land farmed, businesses established, and churches built. The citrus industry provided North Brevard with a productive agricultural economy that remained strong until the advent of the space age. With the federal government's purchase of the land north of the port of Canaveral in the 1950s, the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center was established. Later, when more land was needed, the Kennedy Space Center was built on North Merritt Island. Many North Brevard towns, communities, and homesteads disappeared when the governmental acquisition of land forced residents to relocate, but it was this new era of technology that helped shift North Brevard from the farm age to the space age.

African American Sites in Florida
African American Sites in Florida

Author: Kevin M McCarthy

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-24

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1561649511

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African Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of Congress in the twenty-first century. They have played an important role in making Florida the successful state it is today. This book takes you on a tour, through the 67 counties, of the sites that commemorate the role of African Americans in Florida's history. If we can learn more about our past, both the good and the not-so-good, we can make better decisions in the future. Behind the hundreds of sites in this book are the courageous African Americans like Brevard County's Malissa Moore, who hosted many Saturday night dinners to raise money to build a church, and Miami-Dade's Gedar Walker, who built the first-rate Lyric Theater for black performers. And of course also featured are the more famous black Floridians like Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, Mary McCleod Bethune, and Ray Charles.