Vicente Martinez Ybor was a Spanish entrepreneur who first became a noted industrialist and cigar manufacturer in Cuba, then Key West, and finally Tampa, Florida.
Vicente Martinez Ybor c. 1890
Ybor's cigar factory, c. 1902
Restored casitas (homes for cigar workers in the late 1800s) at the Museum, Ybor City, Tampa
Martinez Ybor's grave site in the St. Louis section of Tampa's Oaklawn Cemetery
Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County. With an estimated population of 398,173 in 2022, Tampa is the 49th-most populous city in the country and the third-most populous city in Florida after Jacksonville and Miami.
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