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.
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
and owned by immigrants.
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