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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Brevard County, Florida
Adjacent to Brevard County, Florida
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| Near Museum Circle 0.2 miles south of Lighthouse Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Established by the United States Air Force in 1950 as the Joint Long Range Proving Ground, this area supported the initial development of America’s space program. The era of the Space Age for the U.S. began on this site with the launch of America’s . . . — — Map (db m154077) HM |
| On Lighthouse Road near Control Tower Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Originally constructed in 1868 overlooking the Cape Canaveral beach. Due to shoreline erosion, the lighthouse was dismantled and moved 1 ½ miles inland in the early 1890s. In July 1894, the light was relit at the new location. — — Map (db m23522) HM |
| On Lighthouse Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | On May 21, 1838, Florida territorial delegate Charles Downing requested a lighthouse be built on Cape Canaveral. The first lighthouse completed in Jan. 1848 stood 65-feet tall, had a 55-foot tower and a 10-foot lantern room equipped with 15 lamps on . . . — — Map (db m64798) HM |
| On Center Street at Sevilla Court, in the median on Center Street. |
| | Before modern construction a complex of six burial mounds occupied this location. They were built by the ancestors of the prehistoric Ais tribe, a group who occupied the Cape Canaveral area at the time of European contact. Based on pottery styles . . . — — Map (db m101390) HM |
| On ICBM Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Vc = Ro √(g/Ro+h)
"… one of the most complex tasks ever presented to man in this country -- the achievement of manned flight in orbit around the earth." - John F. Kennedy
Thirty-Fifth President of the United States
This marker . . . — — Map (db m69963) HM |
| Near Museum Circle 0.2 miles south of Lighthouse Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | On this date the U.S. Army’s Ballistic Missile Agency launched the United States’ first
space craft—Explorer 1. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the State University of Iowa developed the satellite payload which was launched on an Army . . . — — Map (db m154079) HM |
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Dedicated to the living memory of the crew of the Apollo 1:
U.S.A.F Lt. Colonel Virgil I. Grissom
U.S.A.F. Lt. Colonel Edward H. White, II
U.S.N. Lt. Commander Roger B. Chaffee
They gave their lives in service to their country . . . — — Map (db m72912) |
| On Glen Cheek Drive at Dave Nisbet Drive, on the right when traveling west on Glen Cheek Drive. |
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1964 – First cruise ship visit, S/S Yarmouth
1980 – First Queen Elizabeth II visit
1982 – First Cruises to Nowhere, S/S Scandinavian Seas
1984 – First homeported ship, Premier Cruise Lines S/S . . . — — Map (db m59645) HM |
| On Glen Cheek Drive 0.3 miles west of Flounder Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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1953 – Commercial fishing began
1954 – First oil imported for Central Florida power plants
1955 – First merchant ship, S/S Mormac Spruce arrived
1962 – First bulk cement silos built
1966 – First . . . — — Map (db m59647) HM |
| On Glen Cheek Drive 0.2 miles west of Flounder Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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1961 – Freedom 7, First space capsule recovered through the Port
1989 – Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) 136 activated
1989 – First quadramodal connection between sea, land, air and space
1992 – SPACEHAB, First FTZ . . . — — Map (db m59648) HM |
| On Glen Cheek Drive 0.3 miles west of Flounder Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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North Side Development
1971 – Courageous, First Coast Guard Cutter, arrived
1974 – First warehouse built
2000 – Container Yard completed
South Side Development
1965 – First refrigerated . . . — — Map (db m59665) HM |
| On Glen Cheek Drive 0.4 miles west of Flounder Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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1968 – Jetty Park Opened
1990 – Central Park (renamed Freddie Patrick Park) opened
1992 – First Florida deepwater port to develop an Inlet Management Plan
1995 – Malcolm E. McLouth Fishing Pier dedicated
1995 . . . — — Map (db m59666) HM |
| On Glen Cheek Drive at Flounder Street, on the right when traveling west on Glen Cheek Drive. |
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Port dedicated by U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland. Serving on the Canaveral Port Authority Board of Commissioners: Colonel Noah Butt, Chairman; David S. Nisbet; L.M. Carpenter; A.A. Dunn and G.W. Laycock. N.M. Argabrite, Secretary. Barbara . . . — — Map (db m59729) HM |
| On Glen Cheek Drive 0.2 miles west of Flounder Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m69964) HM |
| On Brevard Avenue at Oleander Street, on the left when traveling south on Brevard Avenue. |
| | Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior 1924 — — Map (db m146052) HM |
| On Delannoy Avenue north of Church Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On October 31, 1916, citrus grower and inventor Edward Postell Porcher and wife Byrnina Peck Porcher, moved into what was the grandest house in Cocoa. The house is a unique example of Neo-Classical Revival Style architecture interpreted in coquina . . . — — Map (db m112182) HM |
| Near Harrison Street at Riveredge Boulevard, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Born 20 December 1929 at New Smyrna, Florida. Moved to Brevard County March 15, 1936. A 1948 graduate of Cocoa High School. Enlisted in the U.S. Army July 25, 1950. Killed in action June 24, 1951. His grave in Pinecrest Cemetery is properly marked. . . . — — Map (db m145975) HM WM |
| On West King Street (State Road 520) west of South Cocoa Boulevard (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling west. |
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One half mile to the west ran the Hernandez Trail used during the Seminole War. It connected forts along the East Coast to Ft. Dallas in Miami and across from Ft. Pierce and Ft. Capron to Ft. Brooke near Tampa. Brig. General Joseph M. Hernandez, . . . — — Map (db m72606) HM |
| On Brevard Avenue 0.1 miles south of Harrison Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m146061) HM |
| On Derby Street at Brevard Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Derby Street. |
| | Dedicated on July 13, 1924, this structure was built by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and was heralded by The Cocoa Tribune as “an honor to the City.” In 1955 it was sold to the Church of Christ, Scientist. In 1964 it was sold to the . . . — — Map (db m125640) HM |
| On Church Street at Riverside Drive, on the left when traveling east on Church Street. |
| | On June 2, 1878, the Right Reverend John Freeman Young, Bishop of Florida, and Dr. William H. Carter of Holy Cross Church of Sanford, Florida, held the first meeting of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at a nearby Rockledge residence. The mission was . . . — — Map (db m70299) HM |
| Near Harrison Street at Riveredge Boulevard, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Medal of Honor recipient Melvin Morris was born in Okmulgee, Okla. January 7, 1942. Sergeant First Class Morris (U.S. Army-Retired) and family settled in Brevard County in December 1990. On March 18, 2014, the President of the United States of . . . — — Map (db m146008) HM WM |
| On Delannoy Avenue at West King Street (Florida Route 520), on the right when traveling north on Delannoy Avenue. |
| | (side one) Founded in 1885, the S.F. Travis Company is the oldest continuously operating business in the city of Cocoa and one of the oldest hardware stores in Florida. Surviving two world wars, numerous hurricanes, and financial busts, the . . . — — Map (db m145953) HM |
| Near Meade Avenue 0.1 miles east of Ocean Beach Boulevard, on the right when traveling east. |
| | This anchor was discovered 16 miles off the shore of the Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier in 1984 by the late Keith Siegel, a famous local lobster diver, and his brother Brian.
Standing 10 ft. 5 in. tall and weighing more than 6,000 lbs., this artifact . . . — — Map (db m131824) HM |
| Near North Orlando Avenue (State Highway A1A) just north of North 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Joseph C. Von Thron, M.D. opened the first medical practice on this site and building on October 15, 1955 serving Cocoa Beach. — — Map (db m143327) HM |
| On I Dream of Jeannie Lane at State Road A1A, on the right when traveling north on I Dream of Jeannie Lane. |
| | I Dream of Jeannie was part of Cocoa Beach when a television sitcom ran from 1965 to 1979 starring Barbara Eden as a 2000 year old female genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut.
The TV series was set in and around Cocoa Beach.
Barbara Eden . . . — — Map (db m158368) HM |
| On Ramp Road 0.2 miles west of South Brevard Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | The Thousand Islands formed as the result of an ancient tidal inlet that breached this barrier island and flowed across modern-day Cocoa Beach. The indigenous Ais people, a fisher-gatherer society, lived along the inlet. Their oyster-shell middens . . . — — Map (db m112180) HM |
| On West City Avenue (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Atley Bensen paid $1,200 for the precut yellow pine lumber which arrived by riverboat from Jacksonville in 1916, to build this house for his wife Clara Christensen. The Bensen brothers married the Christensen sisters, both pioneer families of Grant. . . . — — Map (db m55099) HM |
| On 4th Avenue at North Miramar Avenue (State Road A1A), on the left when traveling east on 4th Avenue. |
| | The Indialantic Casino was constructed on this site in 1923. The two-story Mediterranean Revival style building was designed by architect William Christen and developed by Herbert Earle. It opened on December 22, 1923, and boasted shops, an . . . — — Map (db m81316) HM |
| Near South Patrick Drive at Yacht Club Boulevard. |
| | In 1605 Florida's Spanish Governor Pedro de Ybarra sent Lt. Alvaro Mexia on a diplomatic mission to the Ais Indians. Mexia recorded his passage from St. Augustine down the coast to the principal Ais Indian town near present-day Vero Beach. At the . . . — — Map (db m82927) HM |
| On Old Dixie Highway at Briarwood Lane, on the left when traveling south on Old Dixie Highway. |
| | Founded by Tom Johnson Cockshutt in 1869, this was the first organized Protestant Church on the East Coast of Florida between New Smyrna and Key West. Tom donated land for a cemetery and built a small log structure located on what is now the . . . — — Map (db m101179) HM |
| On Old Dixie Highway at Briarwood Lane, on the left when traveling south on Old Dixie Highway. |
| | Site of the first church
erected between New Smyrna and Key West
A community church — — Map (db m101180) HM |
| On Highland Avenue, on the left when traveling south. |
| | On October 10, 1910, the original church, known as the Second Advent Church of Eau Gallie, was formally organized by the Rev. H. V. Skipper. Early meetings were held in neighborhood homes and in the Riverside Hotel, owned by John R. Mathers. Mathers . . . — — Map (db m49380) HM |
| On Riverview Drive 0.1 miles north of Jernigan Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This house was built circa 1898-1900 by William O. Wallace from Indiana, who lived here with his wife, May Bell and their four children. An expert fisherman and musician, Wallace kept backyard pens filled with live alligators, turtles and fish for . . . — — Map (db m73084) HM |
| On Houston Street north of Young Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Following the Civil War, Confederate Secretary of War, John C. Breckenridge, and his entourage came down the Indian River in a sailboat on their journey to Cuba where Breckenridge knew he would be safe from prosecution by the United States . . . — — Map (db m71424) HM |
| On New Haven Avenue at Melbourne Court, on the right when traveling east on New Haven Avenue. |
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Many acres in this area were originally owned by Peter Wright a black man and one of the first settlers of this area. He sold his property to Thomas Mason, an English recluse, who later sold the property to Richard W. Goode for $110.
The . . . — — Map (db m50309) HM |
| On East Strawbridge Avenue (U.S. 192) at Riverview Drive NE, on the left when traveling east on East Strawbridge Avenue. |
| | The first Carleton Hotel was built on this site about 1887, under the ownership of Jennie and Emma Strawbridge, sisters, who were natives of Sharon, PA.
That hotel burned in 1904. At the same time, the Idlewylde Hotel to the north, also burned. . . . — — Map (db m73120) HM |
| On U.S. 192, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Ernest Kouwen-Hoven, a land developer and promoter of Indialantic-by-the-Sea in 1918-19, realized that if the seaside town was to become a resort-residential community, a bridge must be built from the mainland to the peninsula. He contracted local . . . — — Map (db m110189) HM |
| Near Highland Avenue at State Road 518. |
| | The First State Bank building was open for business on the south side of Eau Gallie Boulevard in 1883. One day in 1896, the cashier of the First State Bank was seen boarding a northbound train with two large suitcases. He was never heard from again, . . . — — Map (db m48990) HM |
| On Highland Avenue at Law Street, on the left when traveling north on Highland Avenue. |
| | The three story building on the corner of Law and Highland was built by the Gleason family in 1910. The third floor was the Masonic temple. The building was built on some of the highest ground in the area and still had an artesian well with enough . . . — — Map (db m48982) HM |
| On East River Drive 0.1 miles east of U.S. 1, on the right when traveling east. |
| | This is the original building erected by Harry Crenshaw in 1926 and opened as a hotel and apartments in April of that year.
On February 2, 1928, the hotel became the Melbourne Hospital, operated by Dr. and Mrs. I.M. Hay who came here from St. . . . — — Map (db m48646) HM |
| On Highland Avenue 0.1 miles north of Eau Gallie Boulevard (State Road 518), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Lansing Gleason, a descendant of the pioneer Gleason family, recalled that downtown Eau Gallie had numerous fish houses, each with a barrel of whiskey set up at holiday times. A tin cup was provided on a help yourself basis. Things got pretty rowdy . . . — — Map (db m69035) HM |
| On Eau Gallie Boulevard (State Road 518), on the right. Reported missing. |
| | The first wooden bridge from Eau Gallie to "Eau Gallie Beach" was started in 1924. The bridge was formally opened in February 1926. Soon after John R. Mathers began plans to build a bridge from the barrier island to the tip of Merritt Island. That . . . — — Map (db m75971) HM |
| On Pineapple Avenue 0.1 miles north of State Road 518. |
| | This library is the second oldest library in Brevard County. It was founded by the members of the Avilah Club in 1898. Its first location was in the Eau Gallie Post Office (See marker on Highland Avenue.)
The Eau Gallie Woman's club took over . . . — — Map (db m48983) HM |
| On Young Street 0.1 miles east of U.S. 1. |
| | Aaron Bennett established the Eau Gallie Yacht Basin in 1896. But even before that the basin was the terminus of a steamboat line in the days before the railroad reached Eau Gallie.
Phillip David Barbour, a native of Louisville, KY. was the man . . . — — Map (db m48984) HM |
| On Houston Street 0.2 miles south of State Road 518. |
| | The Eau Gallie Yacht Club was completed in January, 1912, at a cost of $3,000. The officers of the club were George F. Paddison, President; Col. C. W. Fowler, Vice-President; J.E.M. Hodgson, Secretary and Treasurer. J.A. Carr was Commodore. The . . . — — Map (db m48987) HM |
| On Front Street 0.1 miles south of New Haven Ave, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Here at what was once known as Hatterman's Point, in the early years, John Cornthwaite Hector settled and had a store built, completed in 1880 by carpenter U. D. Henderson of Eau Gallie.
Hector was described as "tall, heavy-set, with white hair . . . — — Map (db m48889) HM |
| On New Haven Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Henry M. Flagler, Florida East Coast Railroad owner, was influenced to extend his railroad south from Rockledge by a Melbourne resident: E.P. Branch. The railroad tracks were built into Eau Gallie about 1892. Considerable delay was experienced in . . . — — Map (db m50308) HM |
| On South Country Club Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | A 37-cent donation, given to Florida Institute of Technology founder Jerome P. Keuper (1921-2002), would launch one of the most remarkable stories in American higher education. Keuper, a scientist working at Cape Canaveral, founded Florida Tech in . . . — — Map (db m53822) HM |
| On New Haven Avenue at Front Street, on the right when traveling east on New Haven Avenue. |
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Front Street was the original business section of Melbourne. It came into existence in the 1880's as dry goods stores, grocery stores, a fish house boat building and the post office were located along the waterfront.
In 1894, Melbourne's . . . — — Map (db m48886) HM |
| On Young Street at Sunny Point Drive, on the left when traveling east on Young Street. |
| | This house was built prior to 1900 by Gen. John B. Castleman, a veteran of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Gen. Castleman, from Louisville, KY., used this as his winter home for many years.
The General was active in political and . . . — — Map (db m49039) HM |
| | In 1926 the Ginter Building was constructed by Clifford Ginter. It was built as a professional building with natural wood floors and high ceilings. The Ginter Building went up during an era of expansion in Eau Gallie, the Florida land boom of the . . . — — Map (db m49359) HM |
| On Pineapple Avenue at Eau Gallie Boulevard on Pineapple Avenue. |
| | A spur track for the Florida East Coast Railway was once located on the north side of this site. The track went out on a dock where freight and passengers were loaded onto river boats for the journey south.
In 1902, the East Coast Lumber and . . . — — Map (db m49042) HM |
| | The western most building of this complex was built in the period 1919-1921 and the first high school graduating class graduated May 12, 1921 with 13 students.
The building was soon overflowing and six "shacks" were built to care for the . . . — — Map (db m49940) HM |
| On St. Clair Street at Highland Avenue on St. Clair Street. |
| | The Florida East Coast Railway arrived in Eau Gallie on May 20, 1893. The first engine arrived on June 24, 1893. A ticket from Jacksonville to Eau Gallie was $7.00. Eau Gallie was the terminus while construction continued to Miami. A "Y" was built . . . — — Map (db m110315) HM |
| On Harbor City Boulevard (U.S. 1). |
| | 1924
The midway city of Melbourne boasts the grand opening of the Melbourne Hotel. Built by developer Elton Hall.
Late 1920's to Early 1960's
Several specialty shops, a barbershop, a taxi dispatch station and drug store enjoyed bustling . . . — — Map (db m50745) HM |
| On Houston Street 0.1 miles south of Young Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Alexander R. Hodgson, H.U. Hodgson and John Edwin Hodgson, brothers, together with their families, came to Eau Gallie about 1883. They founded the Hodgson Brothers mercantile business at this
location in the 1890s. They later added a marine
ways . . . — — Map (db m49046) HM |
| On Young Street at Houston Street, on the right when traveling east on Young Street. |
| | The Hodgson Brothers (John, Alexander and Henry) settled in Eau Gallie in 1883, coming here from Canada. They operated a general store and boat ways at the south end of Houston Street and at one time ran a small steamboat line. This building was . . . — — Map (db m71423) HM |
| On Peachtree Street at West Strawbridge Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Peachtree Street. |
| | First organized in 1884, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church was erected in 1886 on land donated by Lucy Boardman, who also provided plans for the building. Founding members of the congregation included the Goode, Campbell, Miller, Ely, Ellis and Grubb . . . — — Map (db m52927) HM |
| On Highland Avenue 0.1 miles south of Montreal Avenue, on the left when traveling south. |
| | The pioneer Houston family built its first home just southeast of this location. It was customary in those days of the nineteenth century to bury the dead on the family property, thus this cemetery was established in 1883 when 27 year old Samuel . . . — — Map (db m49047) HM |
| On Highland Avenue at Hector Street on Highland Avenue. |
| | Descended from 17th Century New England pioneers, James Rossetter (1863-1921) was born in Hamilton County, Florida. Rossetter arrived in Eau Gallie in 1902 and became a leader in the local fishing industry, harvesting the many local waterways as a . . . — — Map (db m49214) HM |
| On Highland Avenue north of Bud Yeager Drive, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Karrick's Grocery opened in 1918 in a small 16x30 ft. building with an inventory worth $800. Sugar was selling at 28 cents a pound, butter 60 cents a pound, rice 15 cents a pound, and flour $2.35 for 25 pounds. The U.S. was engaged in World War I. . . . — — Map (db m69036) HM |
| On Eddie Allan Road at Airport Boulevard, on the left when traveling east on Eddie Allan Road. |
| | Land Yacht Port-O-Call, travel trailer park, originally for Airstream trailers only, was begun in 1969 on 21 acres leased from Melbourne Airport. In 1979 seven and one half acres were added to the park, making room for a total of 647 trailers. . . . — — Map (db m52376) HM |
| On South Academy Drive 0.1 miles north of U.S. 192. |
| | The south side of this building was originally built in 1923 as the home for the Ernest Kouwen-Hoven family. During the year they lived in it, it was the scene of many spectacular parties, as well as more down-to-earth "crab-boils" held on the . . . — — Map (db m66833) HM |
| | Melbourne's oldest surviving schoolhouse built 1883 by John Goode at his house on the river. Both black and white students, attended 5-6 summer months, sat on benches. Wrote on slates, drank from well near by. Bought by South Brevard Historical . . . — — Map (db m55420) HM |
| Near Harbor City Boulevard (U.S. 1). |
| | The Melbourne Hotel was first opened on the evening of September 23, 1924, with several hundred guests in attendance.
Elton Hall was the promoter of the hotel and celebrated his 36th birthday on the day of the opening.
That same year . . . — — Map (db m50320) HM |
| Near South Harbor City Boulevard (U.S. 1) at Tangerine Street. |
| | This building was started in December, 1926, by Florida Power and Light Co. as a 150-ton ice plant. The plant was to be built in units, with the first unit having a 50-ton capacity. Cost of the building was about $100,000.
However, the ice . . . — — Map (db m48887) HM |
| On East Fee Avenue 0.1 miles east of Hickory Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The library began in Mrs. Campbell's store called The Bazaar, on lower New Haven Avenue, in 1918.
It soon outgrew the store, moved to a building on the corner of New Haven Ave. and Vernon Place, then across the street to the display room of the . . . — — Map (db m50307) HM |
| | This building was erected in 1913 and contained a billiard parlor and restaurant on the ground floor, and the Midway Hotel upstairs. The Melbourne Times moved from its Front Street location to this building almost as soon as it was finished, and . . . — — Map (db m49939) HM |
| On Eddie Allan Road at Playhouse Road, on the left when traveling south on Eddie Allan Road. |
| | This site was the 129-building Naval Air Station constructed at the Melbourne Municipal Airport at the beginning of World War II. It was commissioned as Operational Training Unit No. 2 on October 20, 1942 and closed on February 15, 1946. The Station . . . — — Map (db m52374) HM |
| On Highland Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Brevard Art Museum was at one time City Hall, police, and fire department of Eau Gallie. Whenever there was a fire, a siren, located on top of the three story roof, would inform all the local volunteers they were needed. Local businessmen on . . . — — Map (db m49279) HM |
| | This building was the Eau Gallie Post Office circa 1900-1925. Before the advent of automobiles, old-timers recall tying their horses and buggies to the big oak tree in the back.
The building just south of the Post Office was Eau Gallie's first . . . — — Map (db m49235) HM |
| On Melbourne Court at Melbourne Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Melbourne Court. |
| | The original hotel on this site was built in 1884 on property which Richard W. Goode purchased from Thomas Mason first white settler of Melbourne. Mrs. R.W. Goode operated the "Rooming House." She called it the Goode House.
In 1894, the . . . — — Map (db m50311) HM |
| Near Thomas Barbour Drive 0.5 miles north of U.S. 1. |
| | The Ais Indian town of Pentoaya is thought to have been located atop the arc-shaped sand bluffs that surround the western edge of what is now Ballard Park. Pentoaya was an important prehistoric Indian settlement on the east coast of Florida, and was . . . — — Map (db m82819) HM |
| On Pineapple Avenue 0.1 miles north of State Road 518, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1880 about 200 people lived in the cities of Eau Gallie and Melbourne. Eau Gallie's population in 1886 was 50. By 1890 the combined population in and around the two settlements was 374, of which 187 actually lived within the two communities. . . . — — Map (db m49123) HM |
| | The exact year the Roesch house was built is unknown. It was probably constructed sometime after 1892. It was constructed by William Russell Roesch. Roesch was made city treasurer of Eau Gallie in 1887. Roesch was also mayor of Eau Gallie numerous . . . — — Map (db m49136) HM |
| On Houston Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The first hickory log cabin built by John C. Houston, original settler of Eau Gallie, was erected in this area. Houston came here in 1859 with his older sons and 10 slaves. He had served in the U.S. Army during the Seminole Indian wars and had been . . . — — Map (db m49240) HM |
| On East Melbourne Avenue west of Oak Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Richard W. Goode, wife Jessie Goode and three small children arrived in the area of Crane Creek in 1877. They came here from Evanston, Illinois.
Goode explored the area, on foot and by boat, while his family remained in the small settlement of . . . — — Map (db m73132) HM |
| On Eau Gallie Blvd. (County Road 518) 0.2 miles west of U.S. 1, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On the night of March 26, 1944, three B-24 aircraft were flying loose formation from Chatham Field in Savannah, Georgia on a training flight. Somewhere over the Atlantic ocean, two of the planes went down without even giving a distress signal. The . . . — — Map (db m66829) HM |
| | St. John's Episcopal Church parish was founded in 1890, but the church was not built until 1897. The first services were held Feb. 20, 1898. The design of the church is copied from one in Como, Canada, where the Hodgson family formerly lived. The . . . — — Map (db m49137) HM |
| | A Methodist circuit rider, with the aid of early settlers in Eau Gallie, erected a small mission cut out of logs on the north bank of Horse Creek. It was finished with a puncheon floor. Travel to the services was by boat. From 1888 until 1900 the . . . — — Map (db m49237) HM |
| On Strawbridge Avenue (U.S. 192) at U.S. 1, on the right when traveling west on Strawbridge Avenue. |
| | The First Congregational Church of Melbourne had its beginnings in 1887 when Edward Branch and his wife Abbie began to hold regular Bible study and worship meetings. In December 1887, five men and seven women signed a covenant that was the first . . . — — Map (db m66831) HM |
| Near West New Haven Avenue (U.S. 192) at McClain Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Hernandez-Capron Trail parallels I-95 here in Brevard County. Laid out in 1838 by U.S. Army during Second Seminole war, it linked King's Road in St. Augustine and forts along St. John's River with Ft. Capron, 4 mi. north of present Ft. Pierce. . . . — — Map (db m75839) HM |
| Near Murrell Road 0.6 miles south of North Wickham Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | "Nothing occurred to disturb the quiet of the night, except the wolves in the neighboring forest responding howl for howl…"
—Journal of Jacob Rhett Mott, 1838
By the 19th century, American settlements along Florida's . . . — — Map (db m131066) HM |
| On Highland Avenue 0.1 miles from State Road 518. |
| | James Wadsworth Rossetter, Sr., came to Eau Gallie in 1902. He purchased this property in 1903. The house was built before the War Between the States and is on the former site of the Houston family's slave quarters. One member of that pioneer family . . . — — Map (db m48975) HM |
| On Pineapple Avenue at Law Street, on the left when traveling south on Pineapple Avenue. |
| | The William H. Gleason House was built around 1884 by William Henry Gleason (c. 1830-1902) and his wife Sarah Griffin Gleason. Gleason came to Florida in 1866 with his wife and two sons from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and settled in Dade County. In . . . — — Map (db m63911) HM |
| On New Haven Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Almost this entire block was a campground for tin can tourists in the year 1918(?) - 1923. Travelers from all over the country camped here in tents, homemade trailers and even wooden shelters built on the back of Model T Ford trucks. Out houses and . . . — — Map (db m50746) HM |
| On New Haven Avenue at Front Street, on the left when traveling east on New Haven Avenue. |
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Originally wooden steps mounted the bluff, providing a means for pedestrians to go from the front street business section to the hotels and residences along the high bluff.
At the top of the steps, along bluff walk, were the Carelton Hotel, . . . — — Map (db m48888) HM |
| On Highland Avenue at Shady Lane, on the right when traveling south on Highland Avenue. |
| | The two large oak trees that lent their presence to the naming of this house have been damaged and subsequently cut down because of a windstorm. The house has significant history because it was built in the early part of the twentieth century for a . . . — — Map (db m49280) HM |
| On Mill Street east of Lipscomb Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Union Cypress Co. was Melbourne’s first big industry, bringing employment, growth and development to the region. Their big cypress/pine sawmill was a three-story, all-steel structure about 50 by 150 feet. Five, 150-horsepower boilers provided . . . — — Map (db m71092) HM |
| On Ocean Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This historic Chapel, the oldest Church on the Beaches, has been the center of community religious life since it was built in 1892 on land donated in 1890 by Mr. And Mrs. Henry Whiting.
At a cost of $200 and a donation for interior finishing, . . . — — Map (db m52929) HM |
| On Riverside Drive at Ocean Avenue when traveling south on Riverside Drive. |
| | On this site, in February of 1889, Captain Alfred Wilcox took delivery of a shipment of steel rail that would be used in the building of the Melbourne & Atlantic Railroad. Over the coming months, railroad track would be laid to connect the Indian . . . — — Map (db m52544) HM |
| On Riverside Drive at Ocean Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Riverside Drive. |
| | Constructed 1889
Restored 1985
Originally built by the Melbourne and Atlantic Railroad company, this pier was the gateway to the barrier island. A "Port Facility" for tourists, residents, freight, and mail, it supported a standard gauge . . . — — Map (db m53167) HM |
| On Ocean Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Constructed on this site in 1888, Myrtle Cottage was built by Mrs. Hannah Cummings and her daughter Grace, and was the first house in the area known as Melbourne Beach. The house's construction was made difficult by the lack of roads or docks, and . . . — — Map (db m52569) HM |
| On Oak Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | This building was constructed in 1908 facing the Indian River Lagoon in the area now know as Ryckman Park in Melbourne Beach. It originally held offices of the Melbourne Beach Improvement Company. The officers, Capt. Rufus Beaujean, son Donald . . . — — Map (db m53166) HM |
| On State Road A1A when traveling south. |
| | While there is disagreement among scholars, it is believed that this site may be in an area where Juan Ponce de Leon made landfall in April 1513. It has long been thought that this event took place near St. Augustine, based upon studies of de Leon's . . . — — Map (db m69481) HM |
| On State Road A1A at Old Florida Trail, on the left when traveling north on State Road A1A. |
| | Under the United States Government Homestead Act of 1862, brothers Robert Toombs Smith and Charley Smith laid claim to 158.79 acres on Mullet Creek in 1887. They discovered the property while searching the Indian River Lagoon shoreline by sailboat . . . — — Map (db m102830) HM |
| On Ocean Aveune east of Riverside Drive, on the left when traveling west. |
| | One of the first homes in Melbourne Beach, the Ryckman House was built in 1890 for Jacob Fox by Captain Rufus W. Beaujean. Both men were original investors in the Melbourne Beach Company, later named the Melbourne Beach Improvement Company. The . . . — — Map (db m93164) HM |
| Near Ocean Avenue near Riverside Drive. |
| | The Villa Marine Hotel was erected in 1912 by W.L. Sweet. Its construction provided a sorely needed boost for Melbourne Beach as a vacation resort, for other well known resorts north and south were by this time outstripping this community in growth, . . . — — Map (db m52928) HM |
| | This community hall was constructed, circa 1941, as a barracks on the Banana River Naval Air Station. Following World War II, the Naval Air Station became Patrick Air Force Base. In 1948, this building was declared surplus, and sold to the American . . . — — Map (db m52733) HM |
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