ybor is dead

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by TBHC @ 10:53 am

110 years ago…

December 14, 1896 – Vicente Martinez Ybor, cigar manufacturer and namesake and founder of Ybor City, dies at the age of 81. Mr. Ybor is buried in the St. Louis section of Tampa’s Oaklawn Cemetery.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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