Pineda is a former
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in
Brevard County
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,
Florida
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,
United States
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.
History
The original settlement was near the FEC track at the west end of Anderson Way, (known on some plats as Pineda Park). Two developers, E.C. and Anna Dearborn, arrived in November 1894 and began to survey the area. Their recorded plat, "Plat of the Town of Pineda", showed hundreds of subdivided house lots. The main street, Pineda Avenue, was renamed Suntree Boulevard. One early land speculator in Pineda was John Aspinwall, who gave his name to today's Aspinwall Street. Many large landowners surrounded early Pineda, including the Duda family, Parrot family, Haskins, C.J. Hart, and the Stewart family.
[http://johneriksen.net/bc/bc_cb.htm Brevard County, Florida: A Short History to 1955] The Pineda
Causeway, named after this place, carries four lanes of
State Road 404 south of the former village. It is located at the intersection of Suntree Boulevard and
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making ...
east of
Suntree and the
Florida East Coast Railroad
The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida, currently owned by Grupo México.
Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a pr ...
.
Geography
Pineda is located at . (28°13"47 N -80°40'16 W).
The village has 33 homes, including eight riverfront homes. The residential streets are: Third Street, Aspinwall Avenue, Gannet Plaza Avenue, Friendship Place, Ernest Sand Road, 2nd Street, Turner Road, and Byham Road.
Surrounding areas
*Bonaventure, Florida
*
Indian River;
Lotus
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Palm Shores
*
Suntree
Rotary Park at Suntree
A community river park is situated at the junction of Suntree Boulevard and
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making ...
, on the shore of the
Indian River Lagoon. The park is listed in the State of Florida Great Florida Birding Trail, and is home to Waders, Shorebirds; Migratory Ducks,
Loon and
Grebe
Grebes () are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes . Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter. Some flightless species exist as well, most notably ...
(winter).
Footnotes
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Geography of Brevard County, Florida