Wednesday, September 28, 9707

Tampa's Streetcar History

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Steam-powered streetcar, crica 1880s. TBHC collection By 1885, Tampa had two telegraph lines and a steam-powered street railway syst...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Hillsborough County History: Part Six of a Series

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Buffalo Soldier in Tampa, 1898 TBHC Collection In 1898, Tampa was one of three port cities selected as the port of embarkation for tr...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Artifact Spotlight: William Stork's 1767 New Map of East Florida

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TBHC Collection Map #48 in TBHC’s map exhibition — the New Map of East Florida — is important for several reasons. First, it’s one of o...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Hillsborough County History: Part Four of a Series

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Two years after Jackson 's map was complete, Tampa received a city charter from the State of Florida .   Prosperity seemed certain, ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A Short History of Hillsborough County: Part 2 of a Series

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1710 Map of Florida, TBHC Collection Few, if any, of Florida 's indigenous people survived beyond the 1700s.   Once numbering in t...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Sharing Stories at the History Center

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This past November, the galleries of the History Center echoed with the question, “Where were you fifty years ago?”  It was important to ...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

The Disappearing City: How Tampa was Voted Out of Existence

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John T. Lesley Though Tampa experienced growth and prosperity during the 1850s, war clouds and troubled times loomed on the horizon.   ...
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