Palm Bay

Palm Bay, city, Brevard county, east-central Florida, U.S. It lies along the Indian River, a lagoon (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) which at that point is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the long and narrow southern peninsula of Merritt Island, adjacent to Melbourne (north). The area was settled in the 1850s and the city was originally known as Tillman. It was renamed Palm Bay in the 1920s. The city was incorporated in 1960, and...