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He named his plot of land Ybor City and quickly built a factory and housing for Cuban and Spanish cigar makers who in 1886 began production of fine, handmade cigars that gave Tampa national recognition. [3] From 1887 to World War II Ybor City was a company town dominated by the cigar industry. By 1910, Tampa was producing one million cigars per ...
Ybor had moved his cigar-making operation from Cuba to Key West, Florida, in 1869, due to political turmoil in the then-Spanish colony. But, labor unrest and the lack of room for expansion had him looking for another base of operations, preferably in his own company town. [8] José Martí and cigar workers on the steps of V.M. Ybor's factory, 1893
On April 13, 1886, Haya's factory produced the first Ybor City cigar. Ybor's factory followed suit a few days later. At the time, they still had less than 100 employees between them. Cuban workers leaving Key West by Spanish ships after the fire of April 1886. Later in the same month, the Great Fire of Key West ravaged much of the city ...
TAMPA — The Bustillo Brothers & Diaz Cigar Factory’s owners are still deciding what to do with artifacts that remain inside their 120-year-old West Tampa building, which is being converted ...
TAMPA — Historic preservationists were furious in 2019 when the owners of West Tampa’s Santaella Cigar Factory chose to cover the exterior’s yellow bricks with white paint. City Council ...
Ybor's cigar factory, c. 1902 Restored casitas (homes for cigar workers in the late 1800s) at the Museum, Ybor City, Tampa. In mid-1886, a large fire in Key West destroyed much of the town and brought hundreds of Cuban and Spanish cigar workers to Tampa seeking employment. This influx began a period of steady growth that would continue for decades.
TAMPA — Seven years after it was announced that West Tampa’s century-old Balbin Bros. Cigar Factory would be turned into a 70-room boutique hotel, construction is underway.
The Ybor Factory Building is a historic site in Tampa, Florida, United States located at 1911 North 13th Street. The main factory and its surrounding support buildings cover an entire city block between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenues and 13th and 14th Streets in the Ybor City Historic District section of the Ybor City neighborhood.