2021 Inductee
Susan Keohane
IBM Innovation Leader for Healthy Aging and Longevity and Emerging Al Product
IBM Master Inventor
Fort Myers
Recognized for groundbreaking inventions in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and . . . — — Map (db m246482) HM
T. Dwayne McCay
1946 -
Mary Helen McCay
1945 -
Melbourne
Florida Institute of Technology scientist couple whose novel approaches in laser-induced surface improvement have greatly contributed to increased patient safety and . . . — — Map (db m246444) HM
From April to June, 1898, Tampa served as port of embarkation for U.S. troops on their way to Cuba. Some 30,000 troops arrived in Tampa and 16,000 embarked from Port Tampa on June 7. The Tampa Bay Hotel was headquarters for the force's leaders . . . — — Map (db m13635) HM
1950's SCCOA Races During the 1950s, the Sports Car Club of America held regular car races at MacDill and many other Air Force bases throughout the country. 1990's Air Shows Air shows at MacDill have brought out huge crowds to witness the . . . — — Map (db m34154) HM
On June 14, 1898, Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt
and the First United States Volunteer Cavalry,
known as the Rough Riders, embarked from Port
Tampa for victory in the Spanish-American War.
The Tampa Bay Hotel was used as headquarters
for . . . — — Map (db m20160) HM
Henry B. Plant built this ornate Moorish structure at a cost of $3 million. Opened in 1891, it became the social and cultural center of early Tampa. During the Spanish American War it was headquarters for troops going to Cuba and housed such . . . — — Map (db m20020) HM
This former grand old resort hotel, a seat of
culture and education, has been the proud
symbol of Tampa since 1891. Erected by The
University of Tampa Class of 1991, on the
occasion of the centennial of the building,
this marker is a . . . — — Map (db m20063) HM
Salt was an essential commodity during the Civil War because it was required for the preservation of meat and fish. When the Confederate states no longer had access to vital sources of salt in West Virginia and Louisiana, southerners compensated . . . — — Map (db m214934) HM
Built with a $50,000 grant from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the Tampa Free Public Library opened its doors in April 27, 1917, becoming the City of Tampa's first public library. This venture was the result of a sustained . . . — — Map (db m110892) HM
MacDill's First Base Commander • Col. Clarence L. Tinker took command on March 11, 1940 • First Native American to attain the rank of Major General • Killed in action in Pacific Theater during Battle for Midway in 1942 • Tinker AFB . . . — — Map (db m34123) HM
Here lie buried the remains
of a small group of
Native Americans who perished
about 200 years ago.
These remains were discovered
in 1987 during the construction
of the Tampa Convention
Center.
Let us honor the memory
of these and . . . — — Map (db m27496) HM
Throughout history we have answered
our country's call to arms,
for freedom, for justice,
for self-determination of an ally,
we have served, and sometimes paid
in grim coin the price exacted,
Through no fault of ours,
somehow we . . . — — Map (db m15120) WM
On January 14, 1941, Col. Clarence Tinker landed a twin-engined B-18 Bomber on the first MacDill Field runway and a new era for Tampa was born. Soon after, the U.S. would enter World War II and MacDill's pilot training would prove to be an important . . . — — Map (db m34109) HM
By 1902, the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) was formed and the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) had taken over the rail system of Henry B. Plant. Tampa Union Station (TUS) built in 1912, was designed by architect J.F. Leitner in Italian Renaissance style, and . . . — — Map (db m4653) HM
Archibald Ross. A native of Scotland. A member of the City Council. "Tampa's popular baker and the poor man's friend." Paved the walk around his brick building on the southeast corner of Franklin and La Fayette Streets with Georgia marble. . . . — — Map (db m15972) HM
Las Novedades was founded on this site when Ybor City was a tiny village. Its proprietor was Manuel (Canuto) Menendez. The coffee shop was a favorite rendezvous for the pioneer cigarmakers of Sanchez y Haya Cigar Factory located across the . . . — — Map (db m152237) HM
Although the F-4 Phantom was used as a fighter jet in Vietnam, it was originally designed as an interceptor for defense of the fleet against air attack. The need for a jet designed as a fighter led to the introduction of the F-16. Between 1979 and . . . — — Map (db m34140) HM
In 1899, Colonel Peter O. Knight created Tampa Electric Company to serve the energy needs
of a growing Tampa community. Some 28 employees served 1200 customers with electricity from the region's first power plant, one powered by the water of the . . . — — Map (db m15750) HM
In memoriam of the extraordinary sacrifice of the POW and MIA military personnel of Temple Terrace who served our nation's Armed Forces in wars declared and undeclared. — — Map (db m214937) WM
In 1908 John Drew built this cigar factory for Andres Diaz and company of New York. One of the most modern of its day, it produced fine Havana cigars under the labels Terreno, Flor de A. Diaz and La Flor de Scott. West Tampa was . . . — — Map (db m47001) HM
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Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (1911 to 1956) was considered the best athlete in her time, excelling in a variety of sports. She was a two-time member of the amateur Women’s All-American basketball team. In the 1932 Olympics, she set . . . — — Map (db m229421) HM
The Barbary States were a collection of North African states, many of which practiced state-supported piracy in order to exact tribute from weaker Atlantic power Morocco was an independent kingdom, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli owed a loose . . . — — Map (db m194012) HM WM
The Battle of Fort Brooke was a minor engagement fought during the Civil War near Tampa, Florida.
Two Union Navy ships, the USS Tahoma and the USS Adella, bombarded the fort on October 16, 1863. As the conflict continued, the Battle of Ballast . . . — — Map (db m199144) WM
The Battle of Tampa, also known as the "Yankee Outrage at Tampa", was a minor engagement of the American Civil War fought June 30 - July 1, 1862, between the United States Navy and a Confederate artillery company charged with protecting the port of . . . — — Map (db m197409) HM WM
In 1907, Alfred Swann and Eugene Holtsinger constructed the original section of seawall and roadway extending from Swann Avenue to Rome Avenue. This initial section, which was called Bayshore Drive, served Suburb Beautiful, the first residential . . . — — Map (db m44647) HM
A cigar factory built on this site in June 1892 by Hugh C. Macfarlane brought the first industry to the community of West Tampa. First operated by A. Del Pino and Company, it failed financially. In 1894 the O'Halloran Cigar Company occupied the . . . — — Map (db m46945) HM
During the multinational occupation of post-World War Il Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’
railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the . . . — — Map (db m194108) HM WM
In Oct. 1885, John T. Lesley sold to V. Martinez Ybor & Co. the first tract of land on which was built the original Ybor City. Purchased for $9,000 cash, Tampa citizens underwrote $4,000 of this amount to the new owners in pledged land and notes. . . . — — Map (db m8662) HM
African-Americans have served valiantly in all of America's wars. Although black soldiers fought and died in previous conflicts, they were not permitted to enlist as army regulars until after the Civil War. Organized into separate infantry and . . . — — Map (db m32837) HM
The second brick building erected in Ybor City. The Cherokee Club was a popular rendezvous for the elite in the 1890's. Later became known as El Pasaje Restaurant. Its fame spread throughout the Americas.
Jose Marti slept here on his first . . . — — Map (db m152236) HM
With the advent of the cigar industry in 1886,
the Italians were attracted in mass to the environs
of Ybor City. They found employment in cigar
factories, the building of the Tampa Bay Hotel,
the construction of railroads, and farming. . . . — — Map (db m8780) HM
This stone from the invasion beach at Incheon was provided by the City of Incheon, South Korea as a tangible reminder of the sacrifices made by the United States military to protect the freedom of a sovereign country. — — Map (db m193434) WM
The Gulf War, code named Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Lasted 6 Months, 3 Weeks And 5 Days. In Response to Iraq’s Invasion and annexation of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the United States led a coalition of 34 nations which brought economic . . . — — Map (db m194184) HM WM
The historic Jackson Boarding House was originally constructed as a private residence by Moses and Sarah Jackson in the late 1890s. It was converted by the family for use as a boarding house, with the Jacksons living in the home as well. That . . . — — Map (db m229558) HM
Pam loved all aspects of nature and had a special feeling for these wetlands. She spearheaded a community effort to prevent this site from becoming yet another dense development. She fought for almost 3 years and never gave up. Despite difficult . . . — — Map (db m13647) HM
Front:
The Price of Freedom
Is Visible Here
All Gave Some …. Some Gave All
Left Side:
“Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, . . . — — Map (db m207475) WM
On June 3, 1898, when Tampa was a
cluster of old weather beaten houses
floating on an ocean of sand, Teddy
Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
disembarked from their seven train
convoy in Ybor City, five miles from
Tampa City Hall.
They . . . — — Map (db m15569) HM
On the evening of June 9, 1898, the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, "The Rough Riders," were ordered to leave their encampment (approximately one mile northwest of here) and proceed to Port Tampa
(on the eastern shore of Old Tampa Bay) as part . . . — — Map (db m236683) HM
The intersection of Seventh Avenue and Twentysecond Street was a sandy cross-road connecting three army encampments in the Ybor City area during the Spanish-American War.
At this cross-road was located a water-trough where the Rough Riders . . . — — Map (db m33805) HM
The Scrub, once Tampa's oldest and largest African American neighborhood, traces its history to just after the Civil War, when newly-freed enslaved people built homes in a scrub palmetto thicket just to the northeast of the Town of Tampa. The heart . . . — — Map (db m229519) HM
In 1891 upon the completion of the Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry B. Plant recovered two Civil War cannon from across the Hillsborough River at the site of Old Fort Brooke. With his landscape architect Anton Fiehe, Mr. Plant placed the cannon over a . . . — — Map (db m34084) HM
As MacDill Field's first runways were being completed in 1941, only 8,500 men were enlisted in the Army Air Corps. But by the end of World War II in 1945, over 2.5 million Americans had joined the newly renamed Army Air Forces. The demands of war . . . — — Map (db m34125) HM
Provoked by state and federal Indian policy, bands of Seminoles executed attacks on isolated white settlements.
[Caption:]
Fighting in South Florida, U.S. Navy and Marine veterans fight the Seminoles in the . . . — — Map (db m193861) HM WM
Thomas A. Lipo
Tallahassee
Research Professor at Florida State University for his pioneering innovations in the field of electrical machinery and power electronics that improved the technology that runs subway cars and paved the way . . . — — Map (db m246057) HM
Thomas Edison
1847 - 1931
Fort Myers
The most prolific inventor in U.S. history, with 1,093 patents spanning diverse fields including electric lighting, power systems, batteries, recorded sound and film, and a project based in Fort . . . — — Map (db m246018) HM
Thomas H. Maren
1918 - 1999
Gainesville
Physician, University of Florida Graduate Research Professor, and charter member of the UF College of Medicine faculty who made the underlying discoveries behind Trusopt®, the first . . . — — Map (db m246453) HM
Near this site on the shore of the bay, once stood a large Timuquan Temple Mound dating before the time of Christ. It was 50 feet in height with a large level space on top where elaborately decorated temples and residences of Indian chiefs and . . . — — Map (db m33865) HM
As the base and the City of Tampa progress through the 21st century, they face new challenges in the ever-changing global landscape. Today, over 50 different groups operate from the base and over 13,000 military and civilian personnel are assigned . . . — — Map (db m34153) HM
Both the American soldier and the Seminole warrior faced each other across a wide cultural gap. Each were trained and determined.
A large part of central Florida is established as Hillsborough County in 1834. — — Map (db m193913) HM WM
On October 18, 1863, a union task force of 85 soldiers found the “Scottish Chief” and “Kate Dale”, celebrated blockade runners, hidden in a remote anchorage in the Hillsborough River, near this site and set the ships afire. Owner-Skipper James . . . — — Map (db m33675) HM
( North face )
This spot was headquarters
for Roosevelt Rough Riders.
Wheeler Cavalry and the
First Florida Troops 1898
( Northeast face )
This war brought the blue
of the cold bleak north and
the gray of the . . . — — Map (db m19979) HM
The United States Invasion of Panama, code-named Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989. It occurred during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and ten years after the . . . — — Map (db m194046) HM WM
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915 when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince on the authority of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to safeguard the interests of U.S. corporations. It ended on August 1, 1934 after Franklin . . . — — Map (db m194405) WM
American copy of the British 6-Pounder Anti-Tank gun
Ammunition: 6.28 lb. Armor Piercing Shell
Maximum Range: 10,260 Yards
Could Penetrate 2.7 inches of Armor at 1,000 Yards
Employed by Infantry to Destroy Tanks and Concrete . . . — — Map (db m193205) WM
Submarine Torpedo of WW II,
This Example is a Non-Explosive Dummy
643 lb. Torpex Explosive Charge in Warhead
Steam propulsion
Range: 4,500 yards at 46 knots
Designed 1930 in Service 1931 Through the mid-1970s
This type was the . . . — — Map (db m193414) HM
Naval, (Hydrogen Peroxide) Propulsion
973 lbs. Torpex Explosive Charge
Range: 13,700 yards at a speed of 46 knots
This type was in service from 1944 to 1975
This example is a non-explosive dummy.
Sign provided by . . . — — Map (db m193417) HM
The USS Liberty Incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea . . . — — Map (db m193283) HM
This Hillsborough County park is dedicated to all Americans who valiantly fought and died while defending the United States of America and the principles of freedom, justice and equality for all.
May 30, 1987
Hillsborough County . . . — — Map (db m193195) WM
Young American and Seminole veterans gave their energy, their skill, and sometimes their lives to their respective peoples.
Honor their memory! — — Map (db m193867) WM
Born in Valencia, Spain on September 7, 1818 and died in Ybor City on December 14, 1896 and buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in downtown Tampa.
In 1853 at an early age the adventurous Spaniard left his native land and traveled to Cuba which was . . . — — Map (db m171087) HM
The W.T. Edwards Hospital, erected in 1952, was one of three tuberculosis (TB) hospitals built in Florida after World War II, and was funded by a state cigarette tax and federal monies. The other hospitals were in Tallahassee and Lantana. The . . . — — Map (db m72356) HM
Down the corridors of time comes the memory of brave men armed only with camera and typewriter, the many “War Correspondents” who throughout our nation's history have given their all, sacrificed their very lives with honor to send back to their . . . — — Map (db m214938) HM WM
(Front face, left side)
Dedicated to
the memory of
those Americans who valiantly fought and
died in the service of their country
during the great World War
April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918
—•—
It is hoped that the . . . — — Map (db m30652) WM
WDAE was the first radio station in Florida to be licensed commercially to operate by the Federal Communications Commission. The license was issued May 15, 1922, to The Tampa Daily Times. It aired its first programs that date from the original . . . — — Map (db m130304) HM
WDAE was the first radio station to broadcast in Florida, doing so on May 15, 1922. The Tampa Daily Times was the original license holder, and the first radio studio was located in the Florida Citrus Exchange Building (later part of the Maas . . . — — Map (db m176260) HM
Hugh C. MacFarlane, an immigrant from Scotland, purchased land in November 1886 and built a cigar factory that started production on June 15, 1892. MacFarlane and other developers offered free land and buildings, bringing in more cigar factories and . . . — — Map (db m214929) HM
Built with a $17,500 grant from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the West Tampa Free Library opened its doors on January 1, 1914, becoming the first public library in Hillsborough County. Designed by architect John W. Biggar, the . . . — — Map (db m151032) HM
William Benton Henderson was a leading figure in the development of Tampa and Hillsborough County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A Georgia native, Henderson arrived in Tampa in 1847 and served as a lieutenant in the Confederate army. . . . — — Map (db m132918) HM
William F. Poe Plaza is named in honor of William F. Poe, Sr. in recognition of the many significant improvements he initiated in downtown Tampa during his five years of service as Mayor of Tampa from October 1974 to October 1979.
For many . . . — — Map (db m34188) HM
William Glenn
1926 - 2013
Boca Raton
Florida Atlantic University professor who developed high-definition digital imaging technology for NASA and many innovations in the "fields of high-resolution imaging technology, electronic and . . . — — Map (db m246417) HM
Teacher, dean, and principal-who dedicated himself to carrying on the traditions of excellence at Wilson Junior High School. He personified integrity, humility, and devotion to duty. He lived what he taught. He is deeply missed.
"No one is . . . — — Map (db m151020)
William S. Dalton
1949 -
Tampa
Founder and CEO of M2Gen®.and Director of the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at Moffitt Cancer Center, for his revolutionizing developments in personalized cancer treatment
. . . — — Map (db m246152) HM
Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Tampa's oldest surviving junior high, was started here in 1915 with 10 teachers and 259 students. Its longest serving principal, (1933-1960), Miss Pauline Bush, began the county's first school safety patrol during . . . — — Map (db m151011) HM
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Woolworth's variety store was the scene of a pivotal event that started on February 29, 1960. Clarence Fort, President of the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council and Reverend A. Leon Lowry, N.A.A.C.P. State president, led about 40 students (from . . . — — Map (db m120347) HM
Commemorating
The world's first scheduled
commercial airline
near this site. St. Petersburg to Tampa
Jan 1, 1914
Pilot of Benoist Airboat
Tony Jannus
P.E. Fansler, Owner
Erected Feb 1956 by the
Tampa Federation of
Garden Club . . . — — Map (db m34230) HM
On June 12, 1986, the Tampa City Council passed Ordinance No. 9297-a
naming this park:
“Ybor Centennial Park By Which Name It Shall Hereafter And Forever Be Known.”
Signed: Bob Martinez, Mayor; Sandra W. Freedman. . . . — — Map (db m8750) HM
Vincente Martinez-Ybor, a wealthy Spanish
cigar manufacturer from New York and
Key West, began development of Ybor City
in 1885. On April 12,1886, 500 Cuban cigarmakers
boarded the sidewheeler Hutchinson in
Key West and sailed for Tampa. . . . — — Map (db m31712) HM
The Mirta Hook and Ladder Volunteer Fire Station was established on this site. The station was named in honor of the youngest daughter of Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, founder of Ybor City. Capt. Frank Puglisi headed the fire fighters. Volunteer . . . — — Map (db m31887) HM
Born in West Tampa in 1938 to immigrants from Spain, Judge E.J. Salcines is widely admired for his professionalism and leadership in the administration of justice spanning almost fifty-five years. A graduate of Florida Southern College and South . . . — — Map (db m215682) HM
At the nearby junction of Jackson Street and the Hillsborough River was the east bank docking site of the Tampa Ferry, the only means of crossing the river in pioneer days. The ferry was an open deck, flat barge, hand pulled by means of a steel . . . — — Map (db m216191) HM
The Greater Bethel Missionary Baptist Church originated in 1893 as the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Reorganized in a newly constructed wooden church during the first decade of the 20th Century, it became known as the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. . . . — — Map (db m214926) HM
Nestled among sprawling oaks and curved roads with names like Fairway, Fore, and Bogie lies the Forest Hills neighborhood and the Babe Zaharias Golf Course. The neighborhood, originally known as Golfland, was part of a much larger area known as . . . — — Map (db m239239) HM
On the morning of June 9, 1898, the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, “The Rough Riders,” disembarked from an empty coal train (approximately 1 mile east of here) joining 16,000 U.S. Army troops mobilizing in Port Tampa for the invasion of . . . — — Map (db m243964) HM
Salt (sodium chloride, chemically NaCl) shares an ancient history with mankind, going back centuries and through countless civilizations. Salt acts both as a desired food seasoning, and as a useful preservation agent to retard food spoilage. The . . . — — Map (db m214935) HM
This memorial highway is reverently dedicated as a “Road of Remembrance” to those who gave their lives for liberty in the World War 1917-18 by the people of Tampa and Hillsborough County through the Tampa Rotary Club - 1921 - James Adams • . . . — — Map (db m214933) WM
This American Liberty Elm was named after "The Liberty Tree: Our Country's First Symbol of Freedom." On the morning of August 14, 1765, Boston awakened to discover two effigies suspended from an elm tree in protest of the hated Stamp Act. From . . . — — Map (db m215495) HM
Booker T. Washington School was named after the famous African-American educator who, in 1881, founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and who served as principal until his death in 1915. In 1912, at his speech in the Tamp Bay Hotel Casino, a sheet . . . — — Map (db m214925) HM
The Port Tampa Cemetery was where many African American families of the area laid their loved ones to rest. The segregation-era burial ground was in use by members of the community that did not have the means to use established formal cemeteries. . . . — — Map (db m214931) HM
Emelia and Chester W. Chapin of New York settled in Tampa in 1891. The Chapins were instrumental in helping develop the bay shore and the city of Tampa. They purchase 110 acres of land three miles south of the city limits of Tampa. On October 12, . . . — — Map (db m215679) HM
On this site, the West Tampa Boys Club was organized around 1923 at the Rosa Valdez Settlement, a Methodist mission. From 1926 until 1944, the club was a major project of the Tampa Rotary Club. Under leadership of E.S. "Pep" Krantz and Charles . . . — — Map (db m214927) HM
For centuries, Tocobaga Indians drew water from this deep natural spring. When U.S. Army troops arrived in 1824, they quickly discovered this natural resource. Twice a day, government wagons hauled water to Fort Brooke. Despite a strong taste of . . . — — Map (db m214924) HM
In 1175, Pope Alexander III, authorized "La Orden Real Sant' Yago" to protect the Pilgrims' Way to the shrine of Santiago (St. James), at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. Among the Spanish conquerors of America, Ponce De Leon, Panfilo De . . . — — Map (db m237516) HM
On May 16, 1896, during Cuba's 1895 Revolution against Spanish rule, the Captain General of Cuba, Valeriano Weyler, enacted an embargo against Cuban tobacco to the United States. He was enraged by the revolutionary activities of the Ybor City . . . — — Map (db m176267) HM
