Originally
called "Sand Point," a post
office was established in 1859, although
it closed a few months later. Confederate
Colonel Henry T. Titus arrived in
1867 with the intention to build a
town on land owned by his wife, Mary
Hopkins Titus, daughter of a prominent
planter from Darien, Georgia. He laid
out roads and in 1870 erected The
Titus House, a large 1-story hotel
next to a saloon. He also donated
land for 4 churches and a courthouse,
the latter an effort to get the town
designated as county seat. The community
was named "Titusville" in
1873. It would be incorporated as
a city in 1887, the year construction
began on St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church,
listed in 1972 on the National Register
of Historic Places. At one point,
Titusville would be nicknamed "The
City of Churches."
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