Results for Ybor City Historic District
National Historic Landmark - Ybor City Historic District
Founded in 1886, Ybor City is significant in Spanish and Cuban American immigration history. The district is also of importance in American industrial history, for it contains the largest collection of buildings related to the cigar industry in America and ...
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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 ...
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