Melbourne was originally inhabited by Paleo-Indians in the late Pleistocene epoch. The bones of a mammoth was discovered in the area by Harvard University zoologist C. P. Singleton. Melbourne was founded in 1867 by former slaves after the Civil War. The city was formerly called “Crane Creek” and re-named Melbourne in honor of the city’s first postmaster, Cornthwaite John Hector, an Englishman who spent much of his life in Melbourne, Australia. In 1934, the oldest black-owned business in the county, Tucker’s Cut-Rate Plumbing, was opened. The Naval Air Station in Melbourne was established in 1942 to train newly commissioned Navy and Marine pilots for World War II. The program was discontinued in 1946 and the land is now used by the Melbourne International Airport. With a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers, Melbourne has a plethora of tropical palms, such as coconut, royal palms, and even Christmas palms. In 2009, Melbourne was ranked 18th by Forbes in the United States for affordable housing, short commute times, etc. Melbourne is the home of Downtown Eau Gallie Arts District, Historic Downtown Melbourne, Holmes Regional Medical Center, Wuesthoff Medical Center, Kindred Hospital, the annual Melbourne Independent Filmmakers’ Festival, Melbourne Area Pilots Association, Annual IndiaFest and India Day, Melbourne Arts Festival, Melbourne Oktoberfest, Florida Power and Light Company Ice Plant, William H. Gleason House, James Wadsworth Rossetter House, Henegar Center, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Melburne Bone Bed, Nannie Lee House, Roesch House, Winchester Symphony House, Brevard Art Museum, Historic Rossetter House Museum, Liberty Bell Memorial Museum, City of Melbourne Pipes and Drums, Henegar Center for the Arts, Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts, Melbourne Auditorium, and many other tourist and historical attractions.