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Some Cubans jubilantly left Tampa for their homeland, eager to enjoy the fruits of their long-fought revolution. However, most of these would eventually return. The main factors in their decision was the lack of economic opportunities and general devastation resulting from years of conflict, and the realization that Spanish colonial control had ...
Ybor City (/ ˈ iː b ɔːr / EE-bor) [2] is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
HABS No. FL-270, "Ybor Cigar Factory, 1916 North Fourteenth Street, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL", 32 photos, 3 color transparencies, 13 measured drawings, 24 data pages, 4 photo caption pages HABS No. FL-271, " Cherokee Club, 1318 Ninth Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL ", 12 photos, 7 measured drawings, 12 data pages, 1 photo caption page
La Unión Martí-Maceo (also known as the Martí-Maceo Society) [1] is a historic social club in Ybor City, Florida, established by Afro-Cubans. [2] [3] It was founded in 1900. It is a site on the Florida Black Heritage Trail [4] [5] and Tampa's Soulwalk. It is at 1226 East 7th Avenue.
Vicente Martinez Ybor (7 September 1818 – 14 December 1896) was a Spanish entrepreneur who first became a noted industrialist and cigar manufacturer in Cuba, then Key West, and finally Tampa, Florida.
The Tampa cigar makers' strike took place in Ybor City, Florida from November to December 1931. It was made up of a highly unionized, militant cigar maker workforce who had a long history of radical labor–management relations dating back to the 1880s when Cuban immigrants first began building the Florida cigar industry.
TAMPA — The Tampa Tribune’s final home, on Parker Street, was razed and replaced a few years ago with apartments after the newspaper was purchased by the Tampa Bay Times in 2016. Now, one of ...
Tampa City Hall Temple Terrace Country Club Leiman House El Centro Asturiano Circulo Cubano (Cuban Club) L'Unione Italiana (The Italian Club) in Ybor Masonic Temple No. 25. M. Leo Elliott (April 4, 1886 – August 1967) [1] was an architect known for his work in Tampa, Temple Terrace and Sarasota, Florida.