Brevard County, Florida : A Short History to 1955
This is an awesome 230-page history of Brevard County, home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center and launch complex for the Space Shuttle. Would you like to go back in time when life was more in tune with the natural surroundings? Within these pages you'll be transported to a pristine land filled with opportunity and those who sought a new life in a far-away place called Indian River Country. These pages capture the original beauty and abundance of raw nature so starkly contrasted by today's development, and how that raw beauty was developed for a growing population.
A few Highlights
- Many maps, photos and sketches
- The Cape's first commander (USAF Colonel) spots UFOs
- The roots of Florida's Indian River Citrus industry
- Approx. 1000 sources within 320 numbered endnotes
- The nation's first wildlife sanctuary
- Treasure fleets and sunken treasures of gold and silver
- Bibliography of 150 source books
- Easy to read layout in pdf format
- Old towns, roads and trails
- Fishing and hunting at its best
- The famous "real McCoy" brothers
- The nation's first multi-stage rocket launch
