Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Ybor City - Immigrants Town

Ybor City was founded in the 1880s by 
Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy.
 For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories rolled hundreds of millions 
of cigars annually.
Ybor City was unique in the American South as a successful town almost entirely populated 
and owned by immigrants.

By historian Ybor Roger and Wikipedia

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