Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory

Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory (HM1GTH)

Location: St. Augustine, FL 32084 St. Johns County
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Country: United States of America
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N 29° 53.449', W 81° 19.109'

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The Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory, completed in 1909, is the last remnant in St. Augustine of the cigar industry, whose local origins date to the 1830s. Political unrest drove many Cuban cigar makers to Florida after 1868. Their numbers in St. Augustine were enough by 1892 to attract a visit by revolutionary leader Jose Marti. One Cuban, P.F. Carcaba, born in Oviedo, Spain, brought his cigar-making business from Cincinnati to St. Augustine in 1893, selling pure Havana "Caballeros" in boxes featuring images of Henry Flagler's great hotels. After Carcaba's death in 1906, his son, W.H. Carcaba, partnered with his brother-in-law, Agustin Solla, to construct this building. Local architect Fred A. Henderich, a specialist in revival and Bungalow styles, melded Italianate and Mediterranean Revival elements in his design for the building. The Carcaba Company failed in 1917, its assets purchased by the Pamles-Arango Cigar Company, which itself collapsed in 1926 along with the Florida economy. The building then housed a number of businesses before its restoration in 1985. The oldest surviving major industrial building in the city, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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HM NumberHM1GTH
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Marker NumberF-804
Year Placed2014
Placed BySponsored by James M. Byles and the Florida Department of State.
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Friday, September 19th, 2014 at 9:19am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17R E 469249 N 3306729
Decimal Degrees29.89081667, -81.31848333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 29° 53.449', W 81° 19.109'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds29° 53' 26.94" N, 81° 19' 6.54" W
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Area Code(s)904
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling South
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 99-103 Riberia St, St. Augustine FL 32084, US
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