Tag: Tampa Bay
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Weedon Island Preserve
Weedon Island Preserve’s storied past includes a home for prehistoric people, an airport, a movie studio, and a speakeasy. Located along the shores of Old Tampa Bay, it’s a rich tapestry of mangrove forests, open mud flats and salterns, pine/scrubby flatwoods, and maritime hammocks. I may not know a saltern from a hammock, but I
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Tampa Bay History Center & Columbia Cafe
Tampa Bay History Center is well worth your time. It has three floors of exhibits covering a multitude of topics pertinent to Tampa – the cigar industry, indigenous tribes then and now, the Civil War participation, the Mafia, pirates and privateers and much more. The clever set-up encourages visitors to linger at the displays. Not
Lisa Browder 