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Melbourne Beach is a town in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population had 3,231 residents at the 2020 United States Census , up from 3,101 at the 2010 census.
Indian River Lagoon Day in Melbourne. ... Satellite Beach Founders Day parade and marketplace. The event will be at the David R. Schechter Center, 1089 S. Patrick Drive, Satellite Beach, on ...
Melbourne Day is an annual celebration to mark the founding of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, on 30 August 1835. Melbourne was settled on 30 August 1835 by a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land .
Most of present-day Brevard north of Melbourne was part of either Volusia or Orange counties. [9] Brevard County in 1856 extended as far west as Polk County and as far south as coastal Dade County. Complicating the discussion of Brevard County in the 19th century is that the boundaries have shifted such that the southernmost parts of present ...
John Batman (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer, who had a prominent role in the founding of Melbourne.. Born and raised in the then-British colony of New South Wales, Batman settled in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) in the 1820s, where he rose to prominence for hunting bushrangers and leading massacres of Aboriginal people in the ...
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.
The Melbourne Beach Pier is a historic pier in Melbourne Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at Ocean Avenue and Riverside Drive and the pier extends onto the Indian River. The Melbourne and Atlantic Railroad Company built the pier in 1889. On April 12, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The founder of one of many amusement parks that for decades created memories for thousands of vacationers and Myrtle Beach residents has died. Jack Lazarus passed away June 15, 2024, according to ...