Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 11,231 at the 2010 United States Census.[1] It is part of the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The first non-native settlement in the area was by a family of freedslaves following the American Civil War. In 1888, a group of men from Cocoa bought the entire tract of land, which went undeveloped until it was bought out in 1923 by a member of the groupGus Edwards, Cocoa’s city attorney. At that time, Edwards’ total holdings included approximately 600 acres (240ha), and he had stopped practicing law to devote all his efforts to developing the area.[4][5][6]
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