Teco Energy's Tampa Electric Company

Organized October 1899

In 1899, Colonel Peter O. Knight created Tampa Electric Company to serve the energy needs of a growing Tampa community. Some 28 employees served 1200 customers with electricity from the region's first power plant, one powered by the ...

Tampa POW/MIA

Throughout history we have answered

our country's call to arms,

for freedom, for justice,

for self-determination of an ally,

we have served, and sometimes paid

in grim coin the price exacted,

Through no fault of ours,

somehow we are left

on foreign shores,

Some of us lie in ...

Tampa Bay and MacDill

Good Neighbors for Over 60 Years!

1950s SCCOA Races

During the 1950s, the Sports Car Club of America held regular car races at MacDill and many other Air Force bases throughout the country.

1990s Air Shows

Air shows at MacDill have brought out huge ...

Tampa Goes to War

U.S. Enters WWII and MacDill Readies the Air Attack

MacDill's First Base Commander

• Col. Clarence L. Tinker took command on March 11, 1940

• First Native American to attain the rank of Major General

• Killed in action in Pacific Theater during Battle ...

Tampa Salutes MacDill AFB

A Look at Over 60 Years of Growth and Change

On January 14, 1941, Col. Clarence Tinker landed a twin-engined B-18 Bomber on the first MacDill Field runway and a new era for Tampa was born. Soon after, the U.S. would ...

Tampa as Port of Embarkation for Spanish American War

From April to June, 1898, Tampa served as port of embarkation for U.S. troops on their way to Cuba. Some 30,000 troops arrived in Tampa and 16,000 embarked from Port Tampa on June 7. The Tampa Bay Hotel was headquarters ...

Union Raiders Burn Tampa Blockade Runners

On October 18, 1863, a union task force of 85 soldiers found the “Scottish Chief” and “Kate Dale”, celebrated blockade runners, hidden in a remote anchorage in the Hillsborough River, near this site and set the ships afire. Owner-Skipper James ...

Tampa Union Station

By 1902, the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) was formed and the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) had taken over the rail system of Henry B. Plant. Tampa Union Station (TUS) built in 1912, was designed by architect J.F. Leitner in Italian ...

The Buffalo Soldiers in Tampa Heights

1898

African-Americans have served valiantly in all of America's wars. Although black soldiers fought and died in previous conflicts, they were not permitted to enlist as army regulars until after the Civil War. Organized into separate infantry and cavalry units, ...

El Centro Asturiano de Tampa

Spanish immigrants from the province of Asturias formed El Centro Asturiano de Tampa in 1902 as a mutual aid society to meet the recreational, social, educational, and medical needs of its members. In an effort to broaden the concept of ...