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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ED5_captain-joseph-fry_Tampa-FL.html
Captain Joseph Fry was born in Tampa (Fort Brooke) June 14, 1826. As a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served with the Navy throughout the world. When the Civil War broke out, Fry fought with courage and capacity for the South in the Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ED4_first-duel-in-ybor-city-1888_Tampa-FL.html
First Duel in Ybor City 1888. . The first violent death in the Latin Quarter occurred in this vicinity when a pistol duel was fought between two Cuban cigarmakers. Their nicknames were "Teclo" and "Matancero." "Teclo" was killed instantly in the e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EBI_first-citizen_Tampa-FL.html
First Citizen. . The first citizen of Ybor City was Gavino Gutierrez, Spanish civil engineer. . . Gutierrez investigated the area in 1884 as a site for a guava processing plant. The guava plant was never erected, but on the strength of Gutierre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29OM_miracle-at-cockroach-bay-the-leisey-shell-fossils_Ruskin-FL.html
In the ponds in front of you one of the richest Ice-Age fossil discoveries in the world took place in 1983-84. When amateur paleontologists reported a large accumulation of fossils to the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Leisey Shell Pit and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29HX_woolworth-sit-in_Tampa-FL.html
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Woolworth's variety store was the scene of a pivotal event that started on February 29, 1960. Clarence Fort, President of the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council and Reverend A. Leon Lowry, N.A.A.C.P. State president, led about 40 students (from Geor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29G0_madame-fortune-taylor-bridge_Tampa-FL.html
Fortune and Benjamin Taylor were brought to Florida from South Carolina in the 1850s. They were owned by the Howell family. At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed couple were among the first African Americans to legally marry. Freedom came t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23IP_site-of-methodist-episcopal-church-south_Plant-City-FL.html
Plant City's first church building was erected here by the Methodist congregation established at Ichepucksassa in 1850 by Rev. Samuel Knight. The congregation relocated from Shiloh to the new Town of Plant City where a church was erected under the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23IF_roosevelt-elementary-school_Tampa-FL.html
Theodore Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy when the battleship U.S.S. Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. After the United States declared war on Spain in April 1898, initiating the Spanish American War, Roosevelt resigned his positio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23ID_site-of-fort-brooke_Tampa-FL.html
On this site
Fort Brooke
was established
in 1824
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23IB_site-of-aldermans-ford_Plant-City-FL.html
In 1848, James Alderman settled near this site, a densely forested area, and cut down the steep banks of the Alafia River to make it easier for horses and wagons to ford it. The area became known as Alderman's Ford.
As the land to the south of …