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Palm Bay Historical Timeline
The City in Review
1950 - 800 families lived in Palm Bay
1960 - 2,808 residents lived in the newly incorporated Palm Bay and worked at Soroban, Radiation and Documation
1961 - First mail delivery to homes in Palm Bay
1963 - US Highway #1 is completed. Babcock Street doesn't’t exist and Palm Bay Road was only paved to Lipscomb Street
1966 - First school, Palm Bay Elementary, was built
1967 - Fire Station #1 is built on Palm Bay Road
1967 - Palm Bay narrowly rejects vote to consolidate 9 South Brevard communities into a super-city
1970 - 7,176 residents and the city’s budget was $367,650
1973 - The police department moves to Zaruba Center at Veteran’s Park
1974 - The city’s first bank and the Dutch Inn Motel (now Days Inn) are built
1980 - 18,560 residents of Palm Bay
1984 - The first city library opens on Port Malabar Boulevard
1987 - Palm Bay among the first 200 cities honored as a Bicentennial Community
1990 - 62,632 residents helped Palm Bay become the county’s largest city, surpassing Melbourne by approximately 3,000 residents
1992 - Palm Bay Community Hospital opens
1996 - Palm Bay selected as Olympic Torch City
1999 - Palm Bay first city in Brevard to be named a Millennium Community
2000 - 79,413 residents, 64 square miles of incorporated area, 850 miles of roadways and almost 2000 miles of swales, ditches and canals
2004 - Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne impact the city with $13 million dollars in damage and debris clean up
2006 - 100,000 residents
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