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Brevard County, Florida

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

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44historic places

—earliest paper

1844formed

606,612pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 44 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Titusville, Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Brevard titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

29 of 44 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

44 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Aladdin Theater	Cocoa	Building	1991
Barton Avenue Residential District	Rockledge	District	1992
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station NHL	Cocoa	District	1984
Central Instrumentation Facility	Kennedy Space Center	Building	2000
City Point Community Church	Cocoa	Building	1995
Cocoa Junior High School	Cocoa	Building	2019
Cocoa Post Office	Cocoa	Building	2019
Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach	Melbourne Beach	Building	1992
Crawlerway	Kennedy Space Center	Structure	2000
Field, J.R., Homestead	Indianola	Building	1997
Florida Power and Light Company Ice Plant	Melbourne	Building	1982
Gleason, William H., House	Melbourne	Building	1997
Green Gables	Melbourne	Building	2016
Headquarters Building	Kennedy Space Center	Building	2000
Hill, Dr. George E., House	Merritt Island	Building	1994
Hotel Mims	Mims	Building	1995
Imperial Towers Apartments	Titusville	Building	2023
Indian Fields	Titusville	Site	1994
Jorgensen's General Store	Grant	Building	1999
La Grange Church and Cemetery	Titusville	Building	1995
Launch Complex 39	Titusville	Site	1973
Launch Complex 39-Pad A	Kennedy Space Center	District	2000
Launch Complex 39-Pad B	Kennedy Space Center	District	2000
Launch Control Center	Kennedy Space Center	Building	2000
Melbourne Beach Pier	Melbourne Beach	Structure	1984
Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities	Kennedy Space Center	Object	2000
Old Haulover Canal	Merrit Island	Site	1978
Operations and Checkout Building	Kennedy Space Center	Building	2000
Persimmon Mound	Rockledge	Site	1994
Porcher House	Cocoa	Building	1986
Press Site-Clock and Flag Pole	Kennedy Space Center	Object	2000
Pritchard House	Titusville	Building	1990
Robbins, Judge George, House	Titusville	Building	1990
Rockledge Drive Residential District	Rockledge	District	1992
Rossetter, James Wadsworth, House	Melbourne	Building	2005
Spell House	Titusville	Building	1990
St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church	Titusville	Building	1972
St. Joseph's Catholic Church	Palm Bay	Building	1987
St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old	Courteney	Building	1990
Titusville Commercial District	Titusville	District	1990
Valencia Subdivision Residential District	Rockledge	District	1992
Vehicle Assembly Building-High Bay and Low Bay	Kennedy Space Center	Building	2000
Wager House	Titusville	Building	1990
Windover Archeological Site (8BR246) NHL	Titusville	Site	1987

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Brevard was formed in 1844 (1844-03-14) from Hillsborough, Mosquito.

ST. LUCIE (original, now BREVARD) created by Florida Territory from HILLSBOROUGH and MOSQUITO (now ORANGE).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Brevard County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
139	246	1,478	5,158	8,505	16,142	23,653	111,435	272,959	476,230	606,612

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Canaveral National Seashore	Park unit	51.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

7 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brevard Memorial Park	28.46296	-80.76864
Cape Canaveral National Cemetery	28.75932	-80.86142
Cocoa City Cemetery	28.35701	-80.73307
Fountainhead Memorial Park Cemetery	27.963	-80.62164
Pine Crest Cemetery	28.36905	-80.75576
Saint Luke's Parish Episcopal Church Cemetery	28.45715	-80.71664
White Lily Cemetery	28.44214	-80.71754

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Canaveral	28.47111	-80.53727
Mayacas	28.11696	-80.83311

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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