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Watching the Surf
Cocoa Beach, United States. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Cocoa Beach, United States
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Cocoa Beach
How work, access and surfing shaped Cocoa Beach.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Cocoa Beach is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
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1925
Work at the water’s edge
The Town of Cocoa Beach was established on June 5, 1925.
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1935
The shore becomes reachable
In 1935, the FDOT opened up what is now State Road A1A as a one-lane dirt road to Eau Gallie.
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Ron Jon Surf Shop
Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach, Florida. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach, Florida
- Nature
- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
1964
Surfing reads the same coast differently
An annual Easter Surfing Festival began in 1964.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Cocoa Beach is recorded at 28.332° N, 80.605° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Watching the Surf
Cocoa Beach, United States. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Cocoa Beach, United States
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC0
TODAY
Cocoa Beach now
The largest charity surfing festival, National Kidney Foundation Pro-Am Surfing Festival, has been held every Labor Day Weekend in Cocoa Beach since 1985.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Watching the Surf
AOD.US.COCOA-BEACH.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Ron Jon Surf Shop
AOD.US.COCOA-BEACH.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Cocoa Beach, Florida overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.