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==History== {{further|Brevard County#History}} After the establishment of a lighthouse in 1848,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ww3.brevardcounty.us/history/documents/LandmarkGuide2010.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722034924/http://ww3.brevardcounty.us/history/documents/LandmarkGuide2010.pdf |archive-date=2012-07-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> a few families moved into the area and a small but stable settlement was born. As the threat of [[Seminole]] Indian attacks became increasingly unlikely, other settlers began to move into the area around the Indian River. Post offices and small community stores with postal facilities were established at Canaveral, Canaveral Harbor and Artesia. It is thought the Artesia post office was so named for the ground water of artesian springs that are prevalent in the area. In 1890, a group of alumni from Harvard University students established a hunters gun club called the Canaveral Harvard Club with a holding of over {{convert|18000|acres}}. Their game hunts helped clear the wilderness for other settlers to move into the area.<ref name="Text">{{Cite book|title=Cape Canaveral |series=Images of America |pages=18–19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP8sHFpNXugC&q=Images+of+America:+Cape+Canaveral |last=Osborne |first=Ray |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7385-5327-6}}</ref> In the early 1920s, a group of [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] journalists invested more than $150,000 in the beach acreage that now encompasses the area of presidentially named streets in Cape Canaveral. They called their development Journalista (now Avon-by-the-Sea) in honor of their trade.<ref name="Text" /> A wooden bridge linking [[Merritt Island, Florida|Merritt Island]] with the area had just been constructed. The developers anticipated a growing number of seasonal visitors.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} At that time, fishermen, retirees, and descendants of Captain [[Mills O. Burnham|Mills Burnham]] —the original official keeper of the [[Cape Canaveral Light]]—resided in the northern part of the present city.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} Due to the hardships caused by the [[Great Depression]], many investors defaulted on their holdings. Much of this land was recovered by newspaper owner R.B. Brossier and his son, Dickson, after they sold their Orlando home and used the remaining $4,500 to purchase much of the Avon area. In the 1930s, archaeologists from Yale University surveyed various Native American sites in the area.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}<!---for future researchers: Gene Stirling, an archaeologist from Harvard (!), performed research work on mounds in Cape Canaveral called the Fuller Mounds---> In 1951, anthropologist Irvine Rouse of Yale University visited the area and performed research.<ref name="RiverArchaeology">{{cite book|title=Survey of Indian River Archaeology |series=Yale University Publications in Anthropology 45 |first=Irving |last=Rouse |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-404-15668-8}}</ref> By 1958, the workforce and the economy had grown with the space exploration program. At that time, state statute allowed an adjacent city to annex an unincorporated area without a vote of the residents. Local property owners were concerned that [[Cocoa Beach, Florida|Cocoa Beach]] might annex them. Landowners felt that Cocoa Beach had more city debt and higher land taxes than they wished to support.<ref>[http://www.cityofcapecanaveral.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={FCF82651-D0DA-4BE5-B512-1652A96826AE} City History] City of Cape Canaveral - Official Site. Retrieved on 2009-06-25.</ref> The City of Cape Canaveral started in 1961, when a committee was formed to [[Municipal corporation|incorporate]].<ref name="Text" /> Due to paperwork delays the city charter was made into bill 167 and approved by the Florida State Legislature in Tallahassee on May 16, 1963.<ref name="TheHistoryCC">{{cite book|title=The History of the City of Cape Canaveral and The Cape Canaveral Area|series=City of Cape Canaveral |first=Ann|last=Thurm |year=1995 |isbn=0-9650719-0-1}}</ref> In 1967, the annual Sun and Space Festival was started. It had flyovers and a parade that included a stop at the newly opened Museum of Sunken Treasure.<ref name="Text" /> This contained artifacts from the [[1715 Treasure Fleet]].<ref>The Treasure of Cape Canaveral published in Indian River Journal by Brevard Historical Commission</ref> An annual celebration was started on October 9, 1990, The Patriot's Day Parade in honor of the last naval battle of the American Revolution that was fought off the Cape Canaveral coast in 1783.<ref name="Text" /> In 2000, ''The Washington Post'' reported that the city's divorce rate was the highest in the country, 22%. It was the same rate in 2018.<ref name=ft180528>{{Cite news | first=Jessica | last=Saggio | title=10 things you may not know about Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral | url=https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/21/10-things-you-may-not-know-cocoa-beach-and-cape-canaveral/602092002/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 3A, 10A | date=May 28, 2018 | access-date=May 30, 2018}}</ref> At a Heritage Day event in March 2013 part of the festivities for the city's 50th anniversary included author [[Jay Barbree]] who delivered an oral history of the early days. On the 50th anniversary date of May 16, 2013, a 50-year time capsule was sealed and a pictorial postmark of the city's anniversary was stamped. In 2017, the city won "Most Fit City" in the Mayor's Fitness Challenge, hosted by [[Health First]].<ref name="Fitness">{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofcapecanaveral.org/index.asp?SEC=370964CD-520C-4644-B1BA-78AD8C5D2420&DE=E723FBCE-846C-414B-A4C8-33385F2EDF54&Type=B_PR |title=Most Fit City |access-date=2017-06-07 }}</ref>
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