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Ybor City, One-time Cigar-making Capital of World


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Spanish immigrant Vicente Martinez Ybor set up cigar factories in Ybor City in the late 1800s, transforming Tampa, Florida, from a fishing village to a major city. The Ybor City neighborhood was once the cigar-making capital of the world.

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