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Historic Cocoa Village
The city survived a disastrous
downtown fire in 1890 and a brutal
freeze in the winter of 1894-95 that
destroyed the area’s citrus crop and
crippled the industry that had given
the Florida coast a taste of prosperity.
Many of the Village’s early 20th
century buildings remain. The
Porcher House, included on the
National Register of Historic Places,
was built in 1916 by Edward Postell
Porcher, a pioneer in the citrus
industry, and his wife, who was the
first postmistress of nearby Merritt
Island. Today, the house is open to
the community for meetings, wed-
dings, parties and luncheons.
The oldest commercial wooden
structure in Historic Cocoa Village
is the Sur Le Parc Building, which
means “on the Park” in French. the 1940s and, according to local towns including Cocoa, Rockledge,
Built in the 1880s by dressmaker lore, is occasionally haunted by a Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach
Julia Roberts, it reportedly was the ghost named Joe. and Cape Canaveral. Originally
only building on Delannoy Avenue No organization has done more designed to unite people who
to survive the fire. It was moved to to honor Cocoa Village’s past than lived in the area before 1950, the
Florida Avenue in 2006. the Mosquito Beaters, formed in organization is now open to all
The Masonic Temple, also known the 1980s by George L. “Speedy” current and former residents of
as the Village Tower, is a three-story Harrell to preserve the history of central Brevard County.
brick building dating back to The following are excerpts
1919. Allegedly a favorite wa- from Central Brevard
tering hole during Prohibition, Mosquito Beaters “Memory
it houses several Cocoa Village Books” that have been
businesses today.
published over the years.

What is now known as the
Cocoa Village Playhouse was
Left: Harrison Street in Cocoa was a
busy thoroughfare in 1925.
built as the Aladdin Theater
Above: Cocoa continued to expand its
in 1924 for what then was an
economy and Harrison Street was at
the center of commerce in 1930.
astronomical sum of $80,000.
It served as a movie house in
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