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The Merritt Island Public Library, though a part of the Brevard County Library System, is a state-designated special library district. Since Merritt Island is an unincorporated area of Brevard County, [33] in 1965 the area applied for, and was designated, a special library district under Chapter 65-1289 by the Florida Legislature. [34]
Death by malaria was a possibility and death at the hands of angry Indians seemed even more likely. After being under Spanish, French, British, and then Spanish rule again, Florida finally became a United States territory. In 1837, Fort Ann was established on the eastern shore of the Indian River on a narrow strip of land on Merritt Island. [3]
John Moss Field first went to Florida in the 1830s during the Second Seminole War. [2] Later, he moved with his wife Eliza and their family to Merritt island from Macon, Georgia in 1868. [ 2 ] Within a year, the family returned to Macon, except for John Robert Field and Samuel Joseph Field, two sons of John and Eliza.
Location of Brevard County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brevard County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church building built in 1888 and its adjacent cemetery located at 5555 North Tropical Trail, in Courtenay, on Merritt Island, Florida, in the United States.
Barbara Anne Bauer, 16, was found on September 6, 1973, in Bradford County, Florida. She had been abducted from a Holly Hill shopping mall and strangled to death. [6] Cathy Lee Scharf, 17, was a hitchhiker from Port Orange whose body was found on January 19, 1974, by hunters in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville ...
Angel City is a populated place on the Horti Point peninsula of Merritt Island, in Brevard County, Florida, United States. Angel City had a post office between 1927 and 1931. [ 1 ] It is believed that the community was named for an early settler, John Angel. [ 1 ]
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