Cocoa, Florida

Cocoa is the gateway to America's Spaceport. But beforeit became the tourist haven it is today, it was a small village settled byfishermen and their families.

The city's location on the Indian River Lagoonmade it central to early steamboat passage and breathed life into fishing andcommerce.

After World War II, the space age brought science and engineering to nearbyCape Canaveral.

The city also has a history of baseball nearly as long as thesport itself.

It was home to the Cocoa Fliers of the 1940s and hosted theHouston Colt 45s during spring training for twenty years.

Join author BobHarvey as he recounts the sunny history of one of the Space Coast's oldestcities.