It all started in 1915 when Ernest Kouwen-Hoven came south from Chicago and brought his family to Melbourne. Kouwen-Hoven, originally from the Netherlands, purchased a strip of beachside land lying between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean
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When the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad line arrived at Titusville at the end of 1885, it opened a new era of transportation by linking with the Indian River steamboats in what was called the "Tropical Trunk Line."
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It all started in 1915 when Ernest Kouwen-Hoven came south from Chicago and brought his family to Melbourne. Kouwen-Hoven, originally from the Netherlands, purchased a strip of beachside land lying between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean