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Ybor Rooster
Blog, Tampa

Ybor City

Ybor City is known for a couple of things. It is known for its cigar making factories, most of which have been turned into condos or other uses now. There is also a lot of other interesting history some of which can be learned about in the Ybor City Museum […]

Ybor City Rooster, Tampa, Florida
Blog, Tampa

Ybor City – Cigars and Roosters

Ybor City is a historic district of Tampa that is famous for it’s cigar factories. It was founded in the 1880s by cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Spain, Cuba, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City’s cigar factories would roll […]