Ybor City
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Ybor City is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions of cigars annually.
Centro Ybor complex with a TECO Line car passing in front
Ybor's first cigar factory
Old cigar factory in Ybor City
Florida Brewing building in Ybor City
Vicente Martinez Ybor
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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