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Information on a liitle city called Titusville

The City of Titusville was a small city in the eighteen hundreds. The city was founded by Colonel Henry T. Titus. In this essay, I will be focusing on talking about Old Down Town Titusville. My main focus on Titusville will be some of the people that made Titusville a known city, such as Colonel Titus and Mr. Pritchard. I will also be touching on some of the major occurrences that happened in Titusville, Scottsmoor, and Mims.
In the beginning of Brevard County, LaGrange community was the first social grouping. Titusville was first referred to as Sand Point. The city was eventually named after Colonel Henry Theodore Titus, who won the right to rename the city to Titusville, after winning a game of Dominos against Captain Clark Rice. "Today’s Titusville might have been known as Riceville". Sand Point became known as Titusville in eight-teen seventy-three. Colonel Henry Titus arrived in Sand Point in eight-teen sixty-seven with his wife and six children. He decided to move ...

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