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The building is labeled with a historic marker, which was sponsored in 1998 by The City of Tampa, Ybor City Development Corporation, and Florida Department of State Secretary of State, Sandra B. Mortham. The marker reads: Organized in 1901, the German-American Club was one of the few non-Latin ethnic clubs in Tampa.
Centennial Park (signed as Ybor City - Centennial Park is a TECO Line streetcar station in Tampa, Florida. The station has one track and one side platform on the north side of 8th Avenue. It is the first station on the streetcar and was the location of the opening ceremony of the first train. [2] [3] There is parking for the station just north. [1]
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 .
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.
Also located in the district is the Amalie Arena (formerly the Tampa Bay Times Forum) where the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning play their home games. The Arena also hosts concerts and other events. [1] The center of the Bay Plaza has a large open court for live music, with views of the downtown skyline, cruise ships and the Port of Tampa. It also ...
TAMPA — Walk east along Seventh Avenue and admire the brick buildings and the recently restored archway lights. Pass the new hotel and the old drinking hole and the sign that proclaims this to ...
L'Unione Italiana, (also known as The Italian Club), is a historic social society in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood. [1] The group's building was designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliott . It is located at 1731 East Seventh Avenue.
The central Tampa area now known as V.M. Ybor, a National Historic Landmark District and now part of the local historic district Barrio Latino, was settled soon after Ybor City was founded in 1885. Ybor City itself was annexed by the city of Tampa in 1887. The "V.M." in the name stands for "Vicente Martinez", as in Vicente Martinez Ybor, the ...