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One of the most interesting of the early residents of Brevard was Thomas Whitfield Whitmire, also known as T.W., or Whit. T.W. is an exemplar of the small-town “main street”
Being Virginians, we often date our history from 1607, the founding of Jamestown. There are those, such as The New York Times, who believe it should be dated from 1619, when the first Africans arrived â involuntarily. That has stirred up much controversy but both of those dates overlook another date, one that we werenât taught in school. That date is 1587. In that year, 20 years before Jamestown and the same year that the English were founding their ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island, the first Filipinos (and one Japanese boy who was somehow part of the crew) landed in what to...