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Cocoa Beach

By Wade Arnold
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By Wade Arnold
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Cocoa Beach welcomes millions of visitors every year, but the city has always managed to keep a small town atmosphere.

While the land was originally purchased by a family of freed slaves following the Civil War, the land went largely undeveloped until it was bought again in 1923 by city attorney, Gus Edwards, who would later serve as Cocoa Beach's mayor. By 1940, it was a cozy little waterfront town with less than 50 people. A few years after World War II, America's space race began, and th...

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