One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town, but a canal. Early Indians, explorers and settlers called the narrow strip of land "The Haulover," because canoes and small boats were hauled over the strip of land as they traveled between the Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River.
Cape Canaveral and the central Florida coast were some of the first North American lands encountered by European explorers at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Spanish adventurers named the cape area Cañaveral, meaning canebrake. The area north of Cape Canaveral the Spanish called Los Mosquitos for the pesky, biting insect that still thrives in the area.
One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town, but a canal. Early Indians, explorers and settlers called the narrow strip of land "The Haulover," because canoes and small boats were hauled over the strip of land as they traveled between the Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River.
Cape Canaveral and the central Florida coast were some of the first North American lands encountered by European explorers at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Spanish adventurers named the cape area Cañaveral, meaning canebrake. The area north of Cape Canaveral the Spanish called Los Mosquitos for the pesky, biting insect that still thrives in the area.
One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town, but a canal. Early Indians, explorers and settlers called the narrow strip of land "The Haulover," because canoes and small boats were hauled over the strip of land as they traveled between the Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River.