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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BI_causeway_Melbourne-FL.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3H_union-cypress-railway_Melbourne-FL.html
This 18.5-mile standard-gauge railway was built to carry logs from the large cypress/pine holdings of George W. Hopkins, at Deer Park, to the Union Cypress sawmill just south of Melbourne. Two new and seven used steam locomotives would eventually …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KC1_pentoaya_Melbourne-FL.html
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 w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FOD_the-hernandez-capron-trail_Melbourne-FL.html
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.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZB_site-of-first-permanent-log-cabin_Melbourne-FL.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DZ0_carleton-hotel-idlewylde-hotel_Melbourne-FL.html
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.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DY4_billy-wallace-house_Melbourne-FL.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CS0_breckenridge-landing_Melbourne-FL.html
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 Governm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CRZ_hodgson-home-and-drugstore_Melbourne-FL.html
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 e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJG_union-cypress-sawmill_Melbourne-FL.html
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 …