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Green Gables, also known as the Wells House, is a historic home at 1501 South Harbor City Boulevard in Melbourne, Florida, United States. The house fronts the Indian River. Local business man William T. Wells purchased the Strobah property and built the Green Gables in 1886 with his wife Nora Stanford Wells as a winter home. [2]
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Evidence for the presence of Paleo-Indians in the Melbourne area during the late Pleistocene epoch was uncovered during the 1920s. C. P. Singleton, a Harvard University zoologist, discovered the bones of a mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) on his property along Crane Creek, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Melbourne, and brought in Amherst College paleontologist Frederick B. Loomis to excavate the skeleton.
Melbourne Village is a town in Brevard County, Florida. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the smallest incorporated municipality (by population) in Brevard County. [8] The population was 681 at the 2020 US Census, up from 662 at the 2010 census.
Honor America Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to American history and heritage, [2] founded the Liberty Bell Memorial Museum. It is housed in a former concrete ground water storage tank and the pump house of the original Melbourne Water Works [3] [4] Architect Joe Vislay designed the water storage tank and pump house and contractor Robert Stitzel built it.
Chris Pine checks in for his Parade interview from the interior of a classic 1965 Airstream trailer currently perched in the front yard of his Los Angeles home. It comes complete with recessed ...
Built in 1916 by Neffie S. Long on land originally owned by the Melbourne Beach Improvement Company. [5] [6] Florence Peel purchased it in 1922. [6] In 1925, it became the winter home of Walter Brown and his wife Ella Belle, who named the house "Port d'Hiver" (Port of Winter). [1] [7] The Brown's summered in Vermont.
Melbourne Beach is Brevard County's oldest beach community. In 1879, a hotel, the Oak Lodge, was built for researchers and naturalists on a 164-acre (66 ha) location near Aquarina. [4] In 1921, the Melbourne Causeway was built, connecting Melbourne Beach to the mainland via the town of Indialantic. In 1923, it was incorporated as a town.