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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.
In Tampa "at least two dozen" volunteers for the Republicans were recruited. [44] Most of the Spanish speaking members of the Lincoln Battalion, came from Ybor City or New York City. [42] Over 1/3rd of the Tampa volunteers were Cubans and became members of a company led by Antonio Guiteras. [44]
El Circulo Cubano can trace its history back to an earlier organization called El Club Nacional Cubano which was founded October 10, 1899. [3] The organization changed its name to El Círculo Cubano in 1902 with the goal of a being a fraternal organization of Cubans in Tampa and to assist each other and help with medical care like other mutual aid societies in the city. [3]
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.
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
Between these communities, the Tampa Bay area's Cuban population grew from almost nothing to the largest in Florida in just over a decade, and the city as a whole grew from a village of approximately 1000 residents in 1885 to over 16,000 by 1900. [17] Both Ybor City and West Tampa were instrumental in Cuba's eventual independence. [18]
Mainly because of Henry Plant's connections in the War Department, Tampa was chosen as an embarkation center for American forces heading to Cuba for the Spanish–American War. 30,000 troops, wearing thick wool uniforms in the oppressive heat, waited in Tampa for the order to ship out during the summer of 1898, filling the town to bursting. [77]
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.