The area of Titusville were once inhabited by the Ais Indians, who gathered palmetto, cocoplum, and seagrape berries. By 1760, however, the Ais people had disappeared as a result of slave raids, disease, and rum. Originally called Sand Point, a post office was established in 1859; although it closed a few months later. Confederate Colonel Henry T. Titus arrived in 1867 with the intention to build a town on land owned by his wife, Mary Hopkins Titus, daughter of a prominent planter from Darien, Georgia. He laid out roads and in 1870 erected The Titus House, a large one-story hotel next to a saloon. He also donated land for four churches and a courthouse, the latter an effort to get the town designated as county seat. Titusville could have been called Riceville, but Titus challenged Capt. Clark Rice to a game of dominoes to decide the name. Titus won the game, and Sand Point became Titusville in 1873. It was incorporated as a city in 1887, the year construction began on St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, listed in 1972 on the National Register of Historic Places. At one point, Titusville was nicknamed The City of Churches. The Atlantic Coast, St. Johns & Indian River Railroad arrived in 1885 from Enterprise, which was connected by a spur line to the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West Railroad at Enterprise Junction in present-day DeBary. Henry Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railroad south from Daytona, with the station built in Titusville in 1892. Tourists arrived, and the Indian River area increasingly became an agricultural and shipping center for pineapple andcitrus produce. A wooden bridge was built east to Playalinda Beach in 1922. Beginning in the late 1950s, the growth of Cape Canaveral, and later the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, made the community’s economy, population and tourism grow considerably. The association with the space program led to the city’s two nicknames in the 1960s: Space City, USA and Miracle City. As of the census of 2000, there were 40,670 people, 17,200 households, and 11,094 families residing in the city. Titusville offers many historical and tourist attractions: Knight’s Armament Company, TICO Warbird Air Show, Dayotona Beach Bike Week, Space Coast Regional Airport, Arthur Dunn Air Park, Judge George Robbins House, North Brevard Historical Museum, Pritchard House, St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Spell House, Titusville Commercial District, U.S. Space Walk of Fame and Museum, Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum, Wager House, etc.