Ybor City: Images of America- Florida Georgia other trail users

other trail users

the pages of this venerable text have been annotated by those who have held it

where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost

Paulo Coelho

and decals

Ybor City: Images of America- Florida Georgia other trail usersIn 1885, Vicente Martnez Ybor purchased 40 acres of land northeast of Tampa, and there he began the cigar industry that would soon draw thousands of immigrants to Ybor City. The diverse population of the area, known as Tampa's ""Latin Quarter,"" came from Cuba, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe. Some residents worked in the various stages of cigar manufacturing, from picking tobacco to constructing cigar boxes, while others operated the local