Courtenay, a place on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida, United States, was settled in the 1870s and 1880s by people from Charleston, South Carolina, and was named for William Ashmead Courtenay, a native of Charleston, Confederate veteran and Charleston businessman who later served two terms as Mayor of Charleston. Merritt Island is a Census designated place in Brevard County, Florida, United States. Brevard County is a county located in the US state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. The War Department was established by the Confederate Congress in an act on February 21, 1861. [1][2] Courtenay Parkway, the northern part of which is State Road 3, is a major north-south road on Merritt Island. State Road 3, also known as North Courtenay Parkway, is a north-south road serving as the southern access for the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral Both the place and the road are sometimes misspelled Courteney. Historic old St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery is located in Courtenay. St Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, also known as the Old St Courtenay is pronounced as if it were spelled kort-knee.
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Post Office
A U. S. post office was established on March 8, 1886, with the name of Courteney, Florida, which was corrected to Courtenay on May 6, 1893. The Courtenay post office closed on March 31, 1930, and the area was transferred to the Cocoa post office. Cocoa is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 16412 at the 2000 census [3]
Geography
Courtenay is located at (28. 45667, -80. 70972). [4]
References
- ^ Saint Luke's Episcopal Church Homepage
- ^ William Ashmead Courtenay (1831-1909)
- ^ Bradbury, Alford G. , and Hallock, E. Story, A Chronology of Florida Post Offices, reprinted 1993, Port Salerno:Florida Classics Library. ISBN 0-9630788-1-X
- ^ US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990. United States Census Bureau (2005-05-03). The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title) is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Retrieved on 2008-01-31. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes
External links
- Courtenay, Florida is at coordinates Coordinates:
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