Old Titusville
Editorial

What 'Old Titusville' means, an editorial position

What this site covers: Titusville from Sand Point and Henry Titus through the county seat, the railroads, the freeze, the Moores and the space age.

By The Old Titusville History Team Updated October 13, 2026
Downtown Titusville.
Downtown Titusville, rebuilt in brick after the fire of December 1895. Lauren Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

“Old Titusville” isn’t one decade. It’s the town that’s still visible in Titusville if you know where to look: Sand Point, the river landing that had a post office in 1859; Henry Titus’s hotel, finished around 1870; the county seat Titusville won in 1879 and the courthouse that has stood on Titus’s land since 1913; the railroad that came from Enterprise in 1885 and Flagler’s line that followed in 1893; the freeze of 1894-95 and the downtown fire of December 1895; Harry and Harriette Moore in Mims; and the space-age city that grew from 2,604 people in 1950 to 30,515 in 1970.

The Max Brewer Bridge over the Indian River at Titusville.
The Max Brewer Bridge across the Indian River at Titusville. Charles & Maggie Boyer via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

What the articles cover

The site covers the town’s documented past: its founding and its founder, the county seat and courthouse, transportation, the citrus trade and the freeze, civil rights history, and the space program’s effect on a small river town. A few articles follow a place or an institution forward to the present.

It isn’t a tourism guide or a news site. Opening hours, events and current politics are left to the sources that keep them current.

The Apollo 11 Saturn V lifting off, July 16, 1969.
Apollo 11 lifts off from Launch Complex 39A, across the Indian River from Titusville, on July 16, 1969. NASA via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Corrections

Corrections and pointers to primary records are welcome through the contact page.

Sources

  1. National Park Service, National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form, Titusville Multiple Property Group
  2. City of Titusville, History of Titusville

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