Kudos to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Merritt Island

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Citrus plantation owners and many of the earliest inhabitants of Brevard County were buried at this historic church on the north end of Merritt Island, just a few miles south of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

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From St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s official site: StLukesMI.org:

“In the 1870s, our founding families, the LaRoche, Porcher and Sams, settled in Courtenay, a community in Merritt Island. They were Episcopalians from the Charleston and John’s Island area of South Carolina. They worshipped together using the Book of Common Prayer in the home of John Sams. The Diocese of Florida established St. Luke’s Mission in 1886, and the first church building was built in 1888 with funds provided by Mrs. Lucy A. Boardman of Connecticut on land given by Mr. Edward Porcher. The men of the congregation did the construction. Lay members were responsible for Morning and Evening Prayer two Sundays a month, while Clergy from neighboring parishes, especially St. Mark’s in Cocoa and St. Gabriel’s.”