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Brevard County
Founded: March 14, 1844
Named for Theodorus W. Brevard
County Seat: Titusville


Brevard Co. Courthouse, c.1918

The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894.

In the 1800s, the Hernandez-Capron Trail passed through the county.

"Mosquito County" was formed while the state was still a territory, and on some maps was absorbed into an unofficial "Leigh Read" county between 1839 and 1845. This eventually became three new counties one of which was "Saint Lucia County" on March 14, 1844 - it was renamed Brevard County in 1855 after Theodore Washington Brevard, an early settler who served as Florida Comptroller from 1854 to 1860. In 1905 St. Lucie County was created from the southern third of the county. Brevard's current boundary has been the same since 1907.

Influenced by the presence of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County is also known as the Space Coast.


Apollo Saturn V

Cities
Cape Canaveral • Cocoa • Cocoa Beach • Indian Harbour Beach • Melbourne
Palm Bay • Rockledge • Satellite Beach • Titusville • West Melbourne

Towns
Grant-Valkaria • Indialantic • Malabar
Melbourne Beach • Melbourne Village • Palm Shores

Census-designated places
Cocoa West • June Park • Merritt Island • Micco • Mims • Patrick SFB *
Port St. John • Sharpes • South Patrick Shores • Viera East • Viera West *

Other Communities
Aurantia • Barefoot Bay • Bellwood • Canaveral Groves • Courtenay • Eau Gallie • Floridana Beach
Georgiana • Indianola • Kennedy Space Center • Lotus • Melbourne Shores • Pineda
Scottsmoor • Shiloh • South Cocoa Beach • Suntree • Tropic

Ghost Towns
Allenhurst

Surrounding Counties
Volusia – north
Indian River – south
Osceola – southwest
Orange – west


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