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Melbourne, FL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Melbourne a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Melbourne Home page. The Melbourne Home page provides as much information as possible on Melbourne. Knowing Melbourne’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Melbourne’s Home page, you will also find Melbourne’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Melbourne has a population of 82281. 48.9% of Melbourne’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.1 are female. 40.8% of Melbourne is married and 57.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $185,674, and the average rent is $1,087. Household median income in Melbourne is $51,934, and the individual median income is $26,996. Melbourne’s Ethnic is the following: White(79%), Hispanic(11.7%), Black(9.2%), Multiple(4.5%), Asian(4.1%), Other(2.8%), Native(0.2%), Pacific(0.2%).
In the 1950s, Babcock Street was extended north to intersect with US 1. The Melbourne Shopping Center was constructed on Babcock, the area's first strip mall. Consumers were sufficiently attracted to this new mall, that the traditional downtown, off New Haven, suffered. Urban blight was successfully mitigated in the 1980s.A board was created by the legislature to spend a 10% tax on electric bills.
This was used by the Melbourne Civic Improvement Board to build the Melbourne Auditorium, the first library and fire station, and various parks. The board was dissolved when Melbourne was merged with Eau Gallie in 1969. That merger doubled the size of Melbourne.Streetlights were gradually added until, by the early 1960s, streets east of Babcock Street had lights.
Lights were added to streets west of Babcock after the early 1960s.In 1969, the city elected Julius Montgomery, its first black councilman. Montgomery was also the first African American student of Brevard Engineering College, later Florida Institute of Technology which named their Pioneer Award after him.On August 2, 1995, the city received a record 9.06 inches (230 mm) of rainfall from Hurricane Erin.During the week of August 22, 2008, a record 17.54 inches (446 mm) of rain fell caused by Tropical Storm Fay.A 2009 Halloween street party sponsored by a downtown restaurant attracted an estimated 8,000–10,000 people.
This overwhelmed the downtown area. Street parties were curtailed until public safety issues were addressed.On February 18, 2017, president Donald J. Trump held his first post-inauguration rally at the Orlando-Melbourne International Airport drawing a crowd of approximately 9,000 people according to the Melbourne police department.
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