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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ED5_captain-joseph-fry_Tampa-FL.html
Captain Joseph Fry was born in Tampa (Fort Brooke) June 14, 1826. As a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served with the Navy throughout the world. When the Civil War broke out, Fry fought with courage and capacity for the South in the Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ED4_first-duel-in-ybor-city-1888_Tampa-FL.html
First Duel in Ybor City 1888. . The first violent death in the Latin Quarter occurred in this vicinity when a pistol duel was fought between two Cuban cigarmakers. Their nicknames were "Teclo" and "Matancero." "Teclo" was killed instantly in the e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EBI_first-citizen_Tampa-FL.html
First Citizen. . The first citizen of Ybor City was Gavino Gutierrez, Spanish civil engineer. . . Gutierrez investigated the area in 1884 as a site for a guava processing plant. The guava plant was never erected, but on the strength of Gutierre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DZY_gandy-bridge_Tampa-FL.html
Gandy Bridge. . Constructed as a toll bridge for auto and street car traffic by George S. Gandy, a pioneer West Coast developer, it was begun in 1922 and opened in 1924. The structure consisted of 3ΒΌ miles of causeways and 2½ miles of bridge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29HX_woolworth-sit-in_Tampa-FL.html
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Woolworth's variety store was the scene of a pivotal event that started on February 29, 1960. Clarence Fort, President of the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council and Reverend A. Leon Lowry, N.A.A.C.P. State president, led about 40 students (from Geor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29G0_madame-fortune-taylor-bridge_Tampa-FL.html
Fortune and Benjamin Taylor were brought to Florida from South Carolina in the 1850s. They were owned by the Howell family. At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed couple were among the first African Americans to legally marry. Freedom came t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23IF_roosevelt-elementary-school_Tampa-FL.html
Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy when the battleship U.S.S. Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. After the United States declared war on Spain in April 1898, initiating the Spanish American War, Roosevelt resigned his positio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23ID_site-of-fort-brooke_Tampa-FL.html
On this site
Fort Brooke
was established
in 1824
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23E5_tampa-free-public-library_Tampa-FL.html
Built with a $50,000 grant from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the Tampa Free Public Library opened its doors in April 27, 1917, becoming the City of Tampa's first public library. This venture was the result of a sustained commu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y5J_officers-quarters-fort-brooke_Tampa-FL.html
Commanded from here, 1838-1840
the United States Army
in the 2nd Seminole Indian War
Erected by the Hillsborough County Historical Commission 1966
Monument restored by Hart with the Streetcar Extension in 2010