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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WWI_lagrange-community-cemetery-historical_Titusville-FL.html
Established in 1869, this is the oldest cemetery on Florida's lower East coast. The oldest portion is located in the front center section, evidenced by the southeasterly positioning of the tombstones. Tom Johnson Cockshutt (1841-1917), who arrived…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WWH_lagrange-mims-community-cemetery-historical_Titusville-FL.html
In the early 1900s, a two acre parcel of land north of LaGrange Community Church and Cemetery was given to the Mims colored community for a cemetery. Earliest marked graves are dated 1903; many are unmarked. In the 1800s both blacks and whites wor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WQT_st-gabriels-episcopal-church-historical_Titusville-FL.html
In 1887, construction of a church was begun on land donated to the Titusville Episcopal mission by Mary Titus, wife of the town's founder, and J. Dunlin Perkinson, lay reader of the mission. The name of the church was changed from St. John's to St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WQR_site-of-first-church-historical_Titusville-FL.html
Site of the first church erected between New Smyrna and Key West A community church
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WQQ_lagrange-community-church-historical_Titusville-FL.html
Founded by Tom Johnson Cockshutt in 1869, this was the first organized Protestant Church on the East Coast of Florida between New Smyrna and Key West. Tom donated land for a cemetery and built a small log structure located on what is now the north…
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/HM1DPN_olivers-camp_Titusville-FL.html
This site derives its name from the Oliver family who migrated from Missouri and homesteaded this area of Turnbull Hammock in the early 1870's. They owned large tracts of timberland and citrus groves, and the main "camp" was located on this proper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH39_the-pritchard-house_Titusville-FL.html
Captain James Pritchard bought a lot from Mary Titus, and in the spring of 1891 contracted Pleasant J. Hall, who had built St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, to build a Queen Anne style house of heart pine. It appears today much like it did then. On …
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