Mims, Florida
Mims is a census-designated place (CDP) holding the single zip code 32754 located within Brevard County, Florida, United States.[9] Henry Flagler's East Coast Railroad construction starting 1885 expanded the community.[11] The settlement was organized as a city in the early 1900s; continuing slow growth until the start of the great depression.Mims, unable to sustain a municipal government, subsequently reverted to an unincorporated township within Brevard County, Florida.African-American civil rights leader Harry T. Moore and his family resided in Mims from at least the 1920s.Known as a national civil rights leader, teacher and founder of the Brevard County NAACP, he and his wife Harriette were targeted for assassination Christmas Eve, 1951; they received fatal injuries when a bomb exploded from under their home.
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