Titusville, Florida was founded in 1867 by Confederate Colonel Henry Theodore Titus . The first U.S. Post Office in the area was established in 1859 in what was then known as Sand Point 1. Colonel Titus came to Sand Point with the idea of building a town on land owned by his wife Mary, and overlooking the Indian River where they had first stepped ashore, they built the first hotel and named it “The Titus House” . The Colonel and Mary donated land for the first courthouse, four churches, laid out many of the town’s streets, and established a link to the outside world by connecting the St. Johns and Indian Rivers with mule-drawn wagons . In 1873, Sand Point was renamed Titusville after Colonel Titus won a challenge match of dominoes against Capt. Clark Rice to determine which player got to rename the town .
In the 1880s, Titusville became the birthplace for commercial shipments of the famous Indian River Citrus from Dummitt Grove 1. With the 1880s and 1890s also came the establishment of the first bank, two newspapers, founding of a fishing Industry, railroad connection between Titusville and Enterprise on the north shore of Lake Monroe near Sanford, the extension of the railroad from Jacksonville south along the East Coast with Titusville’s first railroad station being constructed in 1892 .
During World War II, many enemy ships were sunk off nearby beaches, a boat construction company built hundreds of landing craft at a plant located at the yacht basin. A Navy fighter field was also established just south of Titusville which today is known as Space Coast Regional Airport 1.
Today, Titusville is the official county seat of Brevard County, Florida