Ybor City Historic District

Vincente Martinez-Ybor, a wealthy Spanish cigar manufacturer from New York and Key West, began development of Ybor City in 1885. On April 12, 1886, 500 Cuban cigar-makers boarded the sidewheeler Hutchinson in Key West and sailed for Tampa. Over 3,000 ...

Fort Hamilton Officers’ Club

This is a membership club

This casemate fort, named in honor of Alexander Hamilton, was constructed during the years 1825 – 1831 as part of the New York Harbor coastal defense network. It is situated on the site of the two ...

Col. Arthur Forbis

In Honor of

Col. Arthur Forbis

of the N.C. Troops

who fell at his

post in the

discharge of duty

on this memorable

field of battle.

March 15, 1791.

Presented by

McGalliard & Huske

July, 4 1887.

Marker is on Tour Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

El Circulo Cubano

(Cuban Club)

Late 19th and early 20th century Cuban immigration to the United States was impressive for the craft talents brought to the country. Along with their Spanish counterparts, skilled Cuban cigarmakers made Tampa's hand-rolled cigars world-famous. As early as 1899 ...

Bigler Graves

Jacob and Susan Bigler, parents of two governors, are buried here. Their son William was Governor of Pennsylvania, 1852-55; and their son John, Governor of California, 1852-56.

Marker is at the intersection of Mercer Road (Pennsylvania Route 258) and Salem Road, ...

Vicente Martinez-Ybor

Pioneer of the Cigar Industry in Florida and Founder of Ybor City

Born in Valencia, Spain on September 7, 1818 and died in Ybor City on December 14, 1896 and buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in downtown Tampa.

In 1853 at an early ...

Albert Bushnell Hart

Distinguished scholar and historian, Harvard graduate and member of its faculty for sixty years, was born nearby, July 1, 1854, and lived here six years. He died July 16, 1943, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Marker is at the intersection of Lake Road ...

Fresno Assembly Center

This memorial is dedicated to over 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined at the Fresno Fairgrounds from May to October 1942. This was an early phase of the mass incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War ...

Brooke County Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to the men and women from Brooke County who have honorably served in the armed forces of our country in time of war and peace

Marker is on Charles Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brooklandwood Plantation

1798

Built by Charles Carroll of Carrollton for his daughter, Mary Caton. Site of the first Maryland Hunt Cup and Grand National Races. Owned successively by John Cockey, Charles Carroll, George Brown, Captain Isaac Emerson and Saint Paul's School (established 1849).

Marker ...