Ybor City
Heritage District · Tampa, Florida
The cigar city — a National Historic Landmark District founded in 1885 by Vicente Martinez Ybor, who moved his Havana cigar operation to a stretch of Tampa scrub and built a company town around it. Cuban, Spanish, Italian and Sicilian workers arrived together and built something genuinely unusual for the American South: a multi-ethnic industrial town where the mutual aid societies, not the employers, ran the social order.
1600 East 7th Avenue, Tampa, Florida, 33605, United States
A public district, open always. Shops and the museum keep daytime hours; the bars run late.