Historic Sites in Tampa, FL

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A testament to the extravagant tastes that informed Gilded Age architectural style, the 1891 Tampa Bay Ho...

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In 1899, Colonel Peter O. Knight created Tampa Electric Company to serve the energy needs of a growing Tampa communit...

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African-Americans have served valiantly in all of America's wars. Although black soldiers fought and died in previous...

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Francisco Ferlita, a native of Santo Stefano, Sicily, established a bakery on this site in 1896. Bread sold for three...

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(Front text) In 1910, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tampa Chapter No.113, began to raise funds for a monum...

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(Front text) The historic Harlem Academy, known as "The Mother of African- American Schools," was the first public...

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Here lie the remains of five pioneer priests, the oldest known priests' graves on the West Coast of Florida. While li...

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Site of Tampa's First Church Building and first frame ecclesiastical House of Worship erected in the area of all Sout...

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Pam loved all aspects of nature and had a special feeling for these wetlands. She spearheaded a community effort to p...

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(Left face:) War Dept. Records: "Sgt. Nick Matassini Co. H. 357 Inf. was instantly killed in action Dec. 7, 1944 whil...

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December 2008 will not only bring a comfortably cool climate to central west Florida; it will also see th...

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Near this spot on Tampa Bay Father Louis Cancer and Three Religious In search of a mission site in lands of the Timuc...

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The Jesuits organized Most Holy Name parish in 1920 to serve Ybor City's Italian community. On Christmas 1922, Father...

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At midnight, July 18, 1881, two sisters Marie Augustin, Marie Maurice of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, arrived in...

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In 1907, Alfred Swann and Eugene Holtsinger constructed the original section of seawall and roadway extending from Sw...

Henry B. Plant Museum