Cocoa Beach

Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 11,231 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The first non-native settlement in the area was by a family of freed slaves following the 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 group—Gus Edwards, Cocoa's city attorney. At that time, Edwards' total holdings included approximately 600 acres (2.4 km), and he had stopped practicing law to devote all his efforts to developing the area. The Town of Cocoa Beach was established on June 5, 1925. Gus C. Edwards was elected as mayor and served as...