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From the June 15th, 1986 Orlando Sentinel
Q. Where is the Great Lagoon of the Ais in Brevard?
A. In 1605 a Spanish solder named Mexia mapped what he called the Great Lagoon of the Ais, named after the Ais Indians who first inhabited Brevard County. Spanish settlers subsequently called it the Ais Lagoon on their maps. Fred Hopwood, A Melbourne historian, believes that a Doctor Phillipi named it the Indian River in 1820, about the time the Spanish ceded Florida to the United States. Today, it is commonly referred to as the Indian River Lagoon, where fresh and salt water meet to form a brackish estuary.
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