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History Center offers cigar-industry and map tours, plus an Ybor City walk, Nov. 19-21

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TAMPA - The Tampa Bay History Center will run two short docent-led gallery tours and a guided Ybor City walk Nov. 19-21, according to the museum's events calendar. The center is at 801 Water St.

  • Cigar City: Bringing Industry to Tampa, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2 to 2:20 p.m. Docent Amy Tyrrell traces how Henry B. Plant's transportation network and Vicente Martinez Ybor's cigar factories helped turn a small town into a manufacturing center. The center says gallery tours are included with admission.
  • Every Map Tells a Story, Friday, Nov. 20, 2 to 2:30 p.m., at the second-floor gallery entrance. Docent Jim Dinsmore uses maps to show how geography shaped Florida's Indigenous communities, explorers, settlers and military roads.
  • Ybor City Walking Tour, Saturday, Nov. 21, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Guide Evangeline "Van" Linkous, a USF urban planning history professor, leads a walk of about a mile from Parque Amigos de José Martí, 1303 E. Eighth Ave. Tickets are $25, sold online in advance, and tours are capped at 25 people.

Source: Cigar City tour; Every Map Tells a Story; Ybor City Walking Tour; Tampa Bay History Center events.

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