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Author: Wade Arnold Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738566245 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Floridaas Space Coast is an area that got its name from one of the most exciting times in United States history. Settlers were living in Brevard County as far back as the 1800s, and even after World War II, it was still a quiet place to live. Cities and beach towns along 74 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline were thrust into the modern age in the early 1950s, when rockets began lighting up the skies above them. By the end of that decade, the space race had begun, and the nation would set a path to put men on the moon. The areaas population surged with over 200,000 new residents, and things would never be the same. It was a time when people risked their lives for space exploration, and a community came together to make it happen.
Author: Wade Arnold Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738566245 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Floridaas Space Coast is an area that got its name from one of the most exciting times in United States history. Settlers were living in Brevard County as far back as the 1800s, and even after World War II, it was still a quiet place to live. Cities and beach towns along 74 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline were thrust into the modern age in the early 1950s, when rockets began lighting up the skies above them. By the end of that decade, the space race had begun, and the nation would set a path to put men on the moon. The areaas population surged with over 200,000 new residents, and things would never be the same. It was a time when people risked their lives for space exploration, and a community came together to make it happen.
Author: William B Faherty Publisher: ISBN: 9780813080550 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book tells the story of how NASA transformed Florida's East Coast from an economy based on agriculture and tourism to one of the nation's most influential centers of technology.
Author: Dianne Marcum Publisher: The Countryman Press ISBN: 1581579365 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 243
Book Description
Explore Brevard County with this updated edition of the definitive guidebook to the area. Visitors and residents alike will enjoy exploring Brevard County, a recreational paradise where the high-tech space program exists alongside amazing natural areas like the Indian River Lagoon estuary—the most diverse marine estuary in the U.S. Comprehensive listings make this your most informative and entertaining vacation-planning tool.
Author: David Courtney Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477312978 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 120
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A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Author: Dianne Marcum Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1581571208 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore Brevard County with this updated edition of the definitive guidebook to the area. Visitors and residents alike will enjoy exploring Brevard County, a recreational paradise where the high-tech space program exists alongside amazing natural areas like the Indian River Lagoon estuary—the most diverse marine estuary in the U.S. Comprehensive listings make this your most informative and entertaining vacation-planning tool.
Author: John Kumiski Publisher: ISBN: 9780963511805 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 128
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Fishing Florida's Space Coast describes how, where, and when to catch saltwater fish along the Atlantic Beaches and in the Indian River Lagoon system between New Smyrna Beach and Sebastian, Florida. Aerial photographs supplement the test.
Author: Ada Edmiston Parrish Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738506685 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 132
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The history of Central Brevard County is almost as long and complicated as the geographical borders of the county itself. Stretching north and south for 77 miles, Brevard County is a thin strip of land, barely 20 miles across at its widest point. Within these narrow confines, however, diverse and dynamic communities have left their marks and many continue to flourish, among them Merritt Island and Cocoa Beach. Only 32 miles in length, Merritt Island was once a scrub-covered parcel of land settled by hardy pioneers who raised cattle and cultivated citrus, vegetable, and pineapple crops. Though now a commercial and residential center, the careful observer can still find, tucked away in hammocks along the shore and surrounded by million-dollar homes, the old citrus groves, simple homes built by early settlers, and the remnants of small communities that were once hubs of activity. Cocoa Beach owes much of its story to the vision and energy of a single man, Gus Edwards, who promoted the area as a resort to rival the communities of Miami Beach and Venice. With the coming of the space program to Florida's Atlantic coast in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the area built upon elaborately drawn subdivision plats and a few scattered buildings to become the bustling modern city it is today.
Author: Frank J. Thomas Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439626898 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 128
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Southward, along the east coast of Florida, stretches a series of long, palmetto-covered islands that beat back the thundering surf of the Atlantic Ocean. Located about midway on this coast, between the Indialantic Bridge in the north and Sebastian Inlet in the south, is the community of Melbourne Beach. Since the historic arrival of Juan Ponce de Leon in the New World on April 2, 1513, at a site now believed to be within the bounds of Melbourne Beach, the area has experienced more than four centuries of progress, struggle, and success. Discover within these pages how the area’s residents have made Melbourne Beach the strong and vital community it is today through a fascinating compilation of stories and recollections. Meet such colorful residents as bean farmer R.T. Smith, who had “In Beans I Trust” printed on his stationery, and the forward-thinking real estate developer Ernest Kouwen-Hoven.
Author: Wade Arnold
Author: Wade Arnold
Author: William B Faherty
Author: Dianne Marcum
Author: Dianne Marcum
Author: David Courtney
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Author: Dianne Marcum
Author: John Kumiski
Author: Ada Edmiston Parrish
Author: Frank J. Thomas