The museum occupies the former   Ferlita Bakery   (originally   La Joven Francesca ) building at 1818 9th Avenue.  The bakery was known for ...

The Depression was a major blow to cigar manufacturers. Worldwide demand plummeted as consumers sought to cut costs by switching to less-exp...

Fernando Pacheco   was the personal   physician   and   cornerman   for world heavyweight   boxing   champion   Muhammad Ali   as well as nu...

Ybor City grew and prospered during the first decades of the 20th century. Thousands of residents built a community that combined Cuban, Spa...

In the early 1880s, Tampa was an isolated village with a population of less than 1000 and a struggling economy.   However, its combination o...

Ybor City was founded in the 1880s by  Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and was populated by thousands of immigrants,...