Brevard County has a rich and diverse history, spanning nearly five centuries of recorded activities that include the earliest European explorations of America and the moment that humans first left this planet to explore worlds beyond our own.

Brevard County contains much evidence of the Native American societies that inhabited the Indian River region for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. In particular, the Windover site in Titusville garnered international attention with the discovery of nearly 200 remarkably preserved burials dating between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, making them 3,200 years older than King Tutankhamen.