City of Titusville history

In the fail of 1890, the town council voted to adopt the Edison lighting system.

In December, 1895 the major portion of Titusville's central business core was destroyed by fire.

By 1900, Brevard had become one of the leading citrus producing counties in Florida.

In 1916 the Titusville Elementary and High School was completed.61

These styles are commonly found among the buildings constructed in Titusville during the 1920s.

The Florida Boom collapsed in 1926, bringing to a close a significant period of growth for communities throughout the state.

Since no airports existed on the east coast between Jacksonville and Miami a highlight of 1927 was the opening of present-day Arthur Dunn Airpark for use as an emergency landing field for the airmail service of the times.

On August 11, 1949 President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing a testing facility there to be shared by all three branches of the military.

The first launch occurred in 1950 and testing continued increasing throughout the 1950s.

Centennial Committee, Count Down in History, n.p.; Bradford County Telegraph, November 12, 1954.

The NASA program became increasingly important after 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced plans to place a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

In 1969, the residents of the city of Eau Gallie and those of Melbourne City voted in favor of the amalgamation of the two cities.

130-136; Janice Barton Miller, "Juan Nepomuceno de Quesada, Spanish Governor of East Florida, 1790-1795" (Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University, 1974).

68; two of the best sources for the British period and the Minorcans are J. Leitch Wright, Florida in the American Revolution (Tallahassee, 1975); and Jane Quinn, Minorcans in Florida.

Windover, discovered in 1982, is one of the best preserved aboriginal burial sites yet discovered.