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 a population of 384,959 according to the 2020 census,Tampa is the third-most populated city in Florida after Jacksonville and Miami and is the 52nd most populated city in the United States.
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.
St. Joseph was a boomtown that briefly became the largest community in Florida,United States,before being abandoned less than eight years after it was founded. St. Joseph was founded in 1835 on the shores of St. Joseph Bay. A brief period of prosperity was ended by a yellow fever epidemic in 1841,and the abandoned remnants of the town were destroyed by a storm surge in 1844. The town site is in Gulf County,Florida,near the city of Port St. Joe.
Port Tampa Bay,known as the Port of Tampa until January 2014,is the largest port in the state of Florida and is overseen by the Tampa Port Authority,a Hillsborough County agency. The port is located in Tampa,Florida near downtown Tampa's Channel District. The port directly accesses Tampa Bay on the western coast of the Florida Suncoast,and is approximately 25 sea miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The port district includes parts of Tampa Bay,Hillsborough Bay,McKay Bay,Old Tampa Bay and the Hillsborough River. The port serves container ships,tank ships,and cruise lines.
The modern history of Tampa,Florida,can be traced to the founding of Fort Brooke at the mouth of the Hillsborough River in today's downtown in 1824,soon after the United States had taken possession of Florida from Spain. The outpost brought a small population of civilians to the area,and the town of Tampa was first incorporated in 1855.
Jesse Johnson Finley was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida,following the reconstruction era. He also served as mayor of Memphis,Tennessee;an volunteer officer in the United States Army during the Second Seminole War;a member of the Arkansas Senate;a member of the Florida Senate;and a Circuit Court Judge in Florida.
Ybor City is a historic neighborhood that includes the Ybor City Historic District in Tampa,Florida. It is located just northeast of downtown Tampa and north of Port Tampa Bay. The neighborhood has distinct architectural,culinary,cultural,and historical legacy that reflects its multi-ethnic composition. It was unique in the American South as a prosperous manufacturing community built and populated almost entirely by immigrants.
Nicholas Chillura Nuccio was a two-time mayor of Tampa,Florida in the 1950s and 60s. He was the Tampa's first mayor of "Latin" descent,having been born and raised in the immigrant neighborhood of Ybor City.
Oaklawn Cemetery is the first public burial ground in Tampa,Florida,United States. The location was deeded in the mid-19th century and was described as the final resting place for "White and Slave,Rich and Poor". Oaklawn Cemetery is located at the intersection of Morgan Street and Harrison Street in downtown Tampa,about two blocks South of I-275. It has approximately 1,700 graves.
The evolutionary origins of yellow fever most likely came from Africa. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the virus originated from East or Central Africa,with transmission between primates and humans,and spread from there to West Africa. The virus as well as the vector Aedes aegypti,a mosquito species,were probably brought to the western hemisphere and the Americas by slave trade ships from Africa after the first European exploration in 1492.
Elisha Bartlett was a medical doctor,professor and poet who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the first mayor of Lowell,Massachusetts.
Charles McKay Wall was an American businessman,mobster,and political figure who was a rival of reputed mobsters Santo Trafficante Sr. and Santo Trafficante Jr. His parents were John Perry Wall and Matilda McKay,a former Tampa Mayor and daughter of a former Tampa Mayor. Wall rapidly gained status within the criminal underworld from his early endeavors in the operation of several gambling,prostitution,and illegal numbers rackets. He was killed,beaten with a baseball bat,and his throat slit,on April 18,1955. He is buried in Tampa's Oaklawn Cemetery.
James McKay Sr. was a cattleman,ship captain,and the sixth mayor of Tampa,Florida. McKay is memorialized with a bronze bust on the Tampa Riverwalk,along with other historical figures prominent in the History of Tampa.
Gavino Gutierrez,a Spanish immigrant to the United States,was an importer,architect,civil engineer,and surveyor. He was responsible for bringing Vincente M. Ybor to Tampa,Florida and for designing Ybor City.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tampa in Hillsborough County,Florida,United States.
George Bascom Sparkman was an attorney who was twice served as mayor of Tampa,Florida:1881–1883 and 1887–1888.
William Benton Henderson was a cattleman,merchant,and prominent figure in the history of Tampa,Florida. He is the namesake of Henderson Boulevard and Henderson Avenue as well as the former W. B. Henderson Elementary School.
Perry G. Wall II was an American businessman and politician in Tampa,Florida.
John Westcott was an American surveyor and politician from the state of Florida. Westcott served as the surveyor general of Florida and the first president of the Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company.
