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Tampa, city, seat (1834) of Hillsborough county, west-central Florida, U.S. It is situated on the northern shore of Tampa Bay at the mouth of the Hillsborough River and is connected to St. Petersburg and Clearwater (southwest and west) across the bay’s western arm (Old Tampa Bay) by the Gandy and Howard Frankland bridges and the Courtney Campbell Causeway. Cigar manufacturing was introduced in 1886 by Vicente Martinez Ybor, and Ybor City, Tampa’s Latin quarter, became a centre of that industry; although some cigars are still made in Ybor City, the enclave is now mainly a tourist spot. Tampa was the embarkation point (1898) for Cuba-bound troops, including those of Theodore Roosevelt, during the Spanish-American War. A fire destroyed a large part of Ybor City in 1908, which was subsequently rebuilt. The world’s first scheduled passenger-airline service, which connected Tampa to St. Petersburg, was inaugurated in 1914, and the Gandy Bridge between the two cities opened 10 years later. The city’s cultural institutions include the Florida Aquarium, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Tampa Museum of Art, and the Ybor City State Museum (which traces the history of the area’s cigar industry). (The region’s professional baseball team, the Tampa Bay Rays, plays in St. Petersburg.) Hillsborough River State Park is northeast of the city. The city is the seat of Hillsborough Community College (1968), the University of South Florida (1956), Tampa College (1890; now part of Florida Metropolitan University), and the University of Tampa (1931); the main building of the latter institution is Plant’s Tampa Bay Hotel.

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