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.
The first college to be established for African-Americans in the Southern United States, Shaw University was founded on December 1, 1865 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of the Baptist Church. What was originally founded as a college soon gained the status of University in 1875.