Mims, Florida. For other uses, see Mims (disambiguation). Mims is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 7,058 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Titusville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Contents.
Baldwin is noted as the developer and founding president of the University of Georgia (1785-1801), the first state-chartered public institution of higher education in the United States.
James G. Carter, a member of the Massachusetts legislature is called the Father of the American Normal School. He was influential in the passage of a bill creating the first State Board of Education in Massachusetts. Horace Mann was named the first secretary on June 29, 1837. Mann said at the dedication of the Lexington school I believe Normal Schools to be a new instrumentality in the advancement of the race.