Fort Brooke Battery University of Tampa

Mounted in Plant Park are two Civil War 24-pounder cannons, which were originally part of a Confederate battery at Fort Brooke. In 1891, while constructing the Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry B. Plant had the cannons salvaged from the Fort Brooke ...

Fort Brooke Battery

Replica Naval Mounts

Manufactured for

The Friends of Plant Park

The Citizens of Tampa, Hillsborough County

and The University of Tampa

Dedicated to

The original inhabitants, soldiers, sailors and

settlers who with blood sweat and toil

carved this area out ...