Tampa Bay History Center historian, curator, and Director of the Touchton Map Library, Rodney Kite-Powell shares the history of Dobyville, a historic Black neighborhood nearly forgotten in Hyde Park.
Some of the whys and hows of recent protests, and the horrific event that preceded them, can be found in history. Tampa’s own experience with race relations and the Civil Rights Movement is punctuated with confrontations similar to what has occurred over the past few days and weeks.
West Tampa’s first generation of cigar manufacturers includes Cuesta, Rey, & Co., Ellinger Brothers, and the Armena Cigar Company. The inadvertent misspelling of that last one on street signs has led some to think there were Armenian immigrants among the Spaniards and Cubans.
Armature Works, recently renovated into new meeting spaces and a food hall featuring some of the Tampa Bay Area’s best restaurateurs, once served as a maintenance facility for Tampa’s early streetcar system.
Long before developers named Water Street Tampa, the waterfront property situated between the modern Tampa Convention Center and the Florida Aquarium enjoyed a rich history.
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