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Merritt Island, Florida
Merritt Island is a peninsula in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the name of an unincorporated town in the central and southern parts of the island and a census-designated place (CDP).
The population was 34,518 at the 2020 census, down from 34,743 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center is located on Merritt Island to the north of the town, and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is located north of the space center.
The central part of Merritt Island, previously known as Merritt City, is home to the majority of the population and includes the local high school, library, and shopping district. The southern area is heavily residential, with centralized light commercial and light industrial areas.
Merritt Island owes its name to the King of Spain.[which?] The entire island was part of a land grant given by the King to a nobleman named Merritt.
Paleontological excavations in the area have unearthed the remains of numerous megafauna and other extinct species, including many herbivorous ungulates, artiodactyls (camelids, peccaries), perissodactyls (equids, tapirs), proboscideans (mammoths, mastodons), rodents (beaver, capybara, porcupine), tortoises and xenarthrans (armadillos, glyptodonts).[better source needed] These species, and many more, thrived in the region up to approx. 11,000 years ago, when a larger North-American extinction event caused the majority of native megafauna to die out; this was possibly due to climate change caused by the advancing and/or retreating of the glacial maximum, thus affecting natural resources and weather conditions. Later, more pressures on wildlife would have come from the arrival of the Clovis culture, who became prolific hunters with their distinct, fluted stone weaponry—including some of the earliest spears and arrowheads. Biochemical analyses have shown, for example, that Clovis tools were used in the hunting of camelids. The Pleistocene, or Quaternary, megafaunal extinction also coincided, roughly, with the appearance of the Clovis culture.
By between 800-900 BC, permanent Native American structures were erected in the area. Their mounds populated the lagoon margin.
In 1605, Spanish explorer Álvaro Mexía visited the local tribes living in the Indian River area. He interacted with the local tribe of Ais people, part of the native province of Ulumay. Merritt Island is the prominent island on a color map he drew of the area, a copy of which is in the archives at the Library of Congress and the archives in Seville, Spain. Within a few years, all but a handful of these natives were dead from an epidemic that plagued the area after a British merchant ship ran aground.
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Merritt Island, Florida
Merritt Island is a peninsula in Brevard County, Florida, United States, located on the eastern Florida coast, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is also the name of an unincorporated town in the central and southern parts of the island and a census-designated place (CDP).
The population was 34,518 at the 2020 census, down from 34,743 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center is located on Merritt Island to the north of the town, and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is located north of the space center.
The central part of Merritt Island, previously known as Merritt City, is home to the majority of the population and includes the local high school, library, and shopping district. The southern area is heavily residential, with centralized light commercial and light industrial areas.
Merritt Island owes its name to the King of Spain.[which?] The entire island was part of a land grant given by the King to a nobleman named Merritt.
Paleontological excavations in the area have unearthed the remains of numerous megafauna and other extinct species, including many herbivorous ungulates, artiodactyls (camelids, peccaries), perissodactyls (equids, tapirs), proboscideans (mammoths, mastodons), rodents (beaver, capybara, porcupine), tortoises and xenarthrans (armadillos, glyptodonts).[better source needed] These species, and many more, thrived in the region up to approx. 11,000 years ago, when a larger North-American extinction event caused the majority of native megafauna to die out; this was possibly due to climate change caused by the advancing and/or retreating of the glacial maximum, thus affecting natural resources and weather conditions. Later, more pressures on wildlife would have come from the arrival of the Clovis culture, who became prolific hunters with their distinct, fluted stone weaponry—including some of the earliest spears and arrowheads. Biochemical analyses have shown, for example, that Clovis tools were used in the hunting of camelids. The Pleistocene, or Quaternary, megafaunal extinction also coincided, roughly, with the appearance of the Clovis culture.
By between 800-900 BC, permanent Native American structures were erected in the area. Their mounds populated the lagoon margin.
In 1605, Spanish explorer Álvaro Mexía visited the local tribes living in the Indian River area. He interacted with the local tribe of Ais people, part of the native province of Ulumay. Merritt Island is the prominent island on a color map he drew of the area, a copy of which is in the archives at the Library of Congress and the archives in Seville, Spain. Within a few years, all but a handful of these natives were dead from an epidemic that plagued the area after a British merchant ship ran aground.
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