Titusville, Florida

Located on the East coast of Florida with a population of 48,874 (as of 2021), Titusville is known formerly as "Space City" and currently as "Miracle City" and runs by the motto "Gateway to Nature and Space."

In 1982, on the outskirts of Titusville, a collection of human remains and artifacts of the early Archaic Period (6,000 to 5,000 BCE) were found, proving that indigenous peoples inhabited this land for thousands of centuries prior to the one we currently live in. The Ais or Ays were a Native American people who lived in Eastern Florida (including what is now Titusville). Their territory included coastal areas and islands from approximately Cape Canaveral to the Indian River. Prior to contact with European colonizers, the Ais population had grown to several hundred thousand and may have flourished for over 10,000 years. However, the tribe had disappeared due largely to infectious disease, slave raids, and the disruptive effects of rum. Their numbers had diminished to 137 individuals by 1711. Diseases brought by the Europeans eradicated the remaining Ais/Costas by the mid-1740’s. The Ais disappear from area records after 1760. The United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, and the Seminole Wars delayed settlement of portions of the new territory.

Beginning in the late 1950s, the growth of Cape Canaveral, and later the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, stimulated growth in the community's economy, population and tourism. However, the space shuttle program at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island was shut down in 2011, causing the shutdown of multiple schools, post offices, malls, and more as the population and economy both declined. Because of the decline of population and economy, the main tourist attractions now are the American Space Museum & Walk of Fame and the Daytona Beach Bike Week.

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