Ybor City

Local nameYbor City
LocationTampa, Florida

Ybor City is a historic neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, United States, located just northeast of downtown. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions of cigars annually.

Ybor City was unique in the American South as a successful town almost entirely populated and owned by immigrants. The neighborhood had features unusual among contemporary communities in the south, most notably its multi-ethnic and multi-racial population and their many mutual aid societies. The cigar industry employed thousands of well-paid workers, helping Tampa grow from an economically depressed village to a bustling city in about 20 years and giving it the nickname "Cigar City".Ybor City grew and…

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ybor_City

Official website http://www.yborcityonline.com/

Phone +1 813 274 7936

Address 1911 N 13th St, Tampa 33605, United States

Coordinates 27°57'40.795" N -82°26'41.471" E

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