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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WKB_titusville-veterans-memorial-fishing-pier-historical_Titusville-FL.html
This pier was the western end of Walker Bridge, the first bridge linking Titusville to Merritt Island. Built in 1922, the hand-cranked, wooden drawbridge served the area until preparations for a modern causeway began in the late 1930s. Causeway co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VMJ_harry-t-harriette-v-moore-memorial-homesite-historical_Titusville-FL.html
This property is the former homesite of civil rights activists Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore, two people whose lives were committed to help Florida's Negro communities unite to form a collective identity. Mr. Moore was a Brevard County educator …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SUE_fellsmere-grade-historical_Fellsmere-FL.html
Fellsmere, the northernmost town in St. Lucie County in 1919, had a population of over 800 people. The county built the first public road to cross the St. Johns River marsh in St. Lucie County (now Indian River County). Promoted as the Fellsmere-T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S1Z_the-last-naval-battle-of-the-american-revolutionary-war_Merritt-Island-FL.html
The last naval battle of the American Revolutionary War took place off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. The fight began when three British ships sighted two Continental Navy ships, the Alliance commanded by Captain John Barry and the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S1Y_provost-hall_Merritt-Island-FL.html
Provost Hall was originally constructed in 1910 as the Georgiana Club house on land provided by Charles D. Provost and his wife Gertrude Breese Provost. Until their grandchildren, Charles D. Provost and his sister, Mary Virginia Provost Katz, gave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S1X_georgiana-railway-1892-1894_Merritt-Island-FL.html
In 1892, Frank Cass Allen, a Georgiana merchant, began building a 0.6-mile standard-gauge railway with steel rail and wood ties across Merritt's Island at this location, connecting docks on the Indian and Banana Rivers. It was part of his private …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R5C_the-ryckman-house_Melbourne-Beach-FL.html
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 Ry…
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/HM1OFU_launch-complex-34_FL.html
Dedicated to the living memory of the crew of the Apollo 1:
U.S.A.F Lt. Colonel Virgin 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 county in the ongoin…
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…