Now, the park is quite a bit smaller at just under 7 acres, but it has been designated a local historical landmark. Each one of the 25 is dedicated to friends of the park like Ronald L. One remembers Theodore Roosevelt, who used the hotel as a headquarters during his time as a colonel in the Spanish-American War.
All rights reserved. Part of the Tampa Magazines Network. May 19, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. In other words, looked a whole lot like Next Post. Please login to join discussion. Ransom E. Olds drives a REO automobile in Did you know, this sculpture located on the Tampa. While bringing people together can create some of. By Mike Miller. It is the county seat of Hillsborough County and has a population of , With its large neighbor to the west across the bay, St.
Petersburg, in Pinellas County the Tampa-St. Petersburg Metropolitan Area has a population of 3,, The modern history of Tampa Florida began when Spanish explorers visited the area in the 's.
They reported Tocobaga Indian villages on the north shore of the bay and Calusa Indian villages on the south shore. These conquistadors, including Hernando de Soto and Panfile de Narvaez didn't find any gold, so they moved on and left the Indians to themselves. The Spaniards apparently left behind some of the European diseases for which the Indians had no immunity, because most of the Indians disappeared not long after the Spanish contact.
With a few exceptions, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival has been held every year since, and is a large part of the celebration of the history of Tampa. Beginning in the late s, illegal B olita lotteries were very popular among the Tampa working classes, especially in Ybor City. In the early s, this small-time operation was taken over by Charlie Wall , the rebellious son of a prominent Tampa family, and went big-time.
In addition to bolita, he bootlegged booze, fixed elections and ran brothels. Several of his rivals ended up mysteriously dead. This crime culture was able to openly thrive because of kick-backs and bribes to key local politicians and law enforcement officials. Profits from the bolita lotteries and Prohibition-era bootlegging led to the development of several organized crime factions in the city.
Charlie Wall was the first major boss, but various power struggles culminated in consolidation of control by Sicilian mafioso Santo Trafficante, Sr. Santo died from cancer in , and his son, Santo Trafficante, Jr. He was allied with mob families in New York, other places in Florida, and Cuba.
One April day in , long after Wall had been pushed out of the rackets by the Sicilian Mafia, his wife called a horde of lawmen and reporters to his rambling bungalow in Ybor City. They found Wall in his pajamas on the bedroom floor.
His throat was cut, and he had been badly beaten. The era of rampant and open corruption ended in the s, when Senator Estes Kefauver's traveling organized crime hearings came to Tampa. These hearings were followed by the sensational misconduct trials of several local officials.
Although many of the worst offenders in government and the mob were not charged, the trials helped to end the sense of lawlessness which had prevailed in Tampa for decades. Tampa began to boom during and after World War II. At the end of the war, MacDill remained as an active military installation while the auxiliary fields reverted to civilian control.
Two of these auxiliary fields would later become the present day Tampa International Airport from the old Drew Field and St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. It became the spring training center for the White Sox in Al Lopez field was torn down in , but had also been used for minor league training by the Tampa Tarpons and also served as a field for the University of South Florida Bulls. In a new football stadium opened on Dale Mabry.
It is located on the west coast of Florida, approximately miles northwest of Miami, southwest of Jacksonville, and 20 miles northeast of St. The population of the city represents approximately one-third of the total population of Hillsborough County. The city had a population of , at the census, and an estimated population of , in A estimate shows the Tampa Bay area population to have 4,, people and a projection of 4,, people. The city is divided into many neighborhoods, many of which were towns and unincorporated communities annexed by the growing city.
Tampa has three major professional sports teams. Tampa has mild winters Dec—Feb and hot, rainy summers Jun—Sep. In Feb, the Florida State Fair attracts families with carnival rides and attractions, livestock exhibitions and food stalls. Settled Incorporated Village on January 18, Incorporated Town on September 10, and August 11, City Incorporated on December 15, Original city charter revoked by Florida Legislature on October 4, City re-incorporated in July 15, Archaeological evidence indicates the shores of Tampa Bay were inhabited by indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
The Safety Harbor culture developed in the area around the year AD, and the descendant Tocobaga and Pohoy chiefdoms were living in or near the current city limits of Tampa when the area was first visited by Spanish explorers in the 16th century.
Interactions between native peoples and the Spanish were brief and often violent, and although the newcomers did not stay for long, they introduced European diseases which brought the collapse of native societies across the Florida peninsula over the ensuing decades.
Although Spain claimed all of Florida and beyond as part of New Spain, it did not found a colony on the west coast.
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