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.
Although the school was founded as a private institution, it has been a public college since 1974. Lincoln has the distinction of being the very first degree-granting HBCU in the United States, a groundbreaking difference at the time and a huge leap forward for African American education.