Tag: Ybor City
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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
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Tampa Trolley
The TECO Line Streetcar System (Tampa Trolley) is a 2.7-mile, air-conditioned, electric streetcar line connecting downtown, the Channel District, and Ybor City. The best part? It’s free. If you want to take in more than one site in the downtown area but don’t want to drive from parking garage to parking garage, or worse, walk
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J. C. Newman Cigar Company
Julius Caeser Newman, founder of the J.C. Newman Cigar Company, started rolling cigars in the family barn in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother had paid $3 a month for him to learn the trade and at age 14, he became an apprentice cigar maker. In 1895, he fashioned a cigar table from old boards, borrowed $50
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