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.
Located five miles from Burlington, the plot for a new college was filled with oak trees. It was in 1889 when Elon College officially took off. William S. Long was the founder and first president of the Christian Church founded school, with 76 students enrolledâ. The school became Elon University on June 1, 2001. In 1891, the first graduating class was made up of Nathaniel G. Newman, C.C. Peel and Herbert Scholz.