In 1885, Vicente Martinez Ybor purchased 40 acres of land northeast of Tampa, and there he began the cigarindustry that would soon draw thousands of immigrants to Ybor City. The diverse population of
Before they defended Britain against Hitler's Blitzkrieg, many Royal Air Force pilots were sent across the ocean to sunny Florida to receive pilot training. Far from the wartime destruction of theirho
Tampa Bay's interest in baseball spans from the sport's earliest days to the region's win of a national league franchise in the last decade of the 20th century. Hosting more major league spring train
In 1878, when two Scottish merchants were granted apetition to open a post office in their small unincorporated Florida community, they were also given the privilege of officially naming the area. The
Pinellas County, Florida, has a rich and varied history. From the beautiful waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with the sponge and seafood industry it supported, to wartime training and recruiting, to the
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. His stories are character
