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Home  News Snapshots: Florida city celebrates its cigar-making past
Sunday, February 06 2011
(ReadingEagle.com)
There was a time when, if given Tampa in a word association game, the response may well have been cigars.
That association could be traced to Vicente Martinez Ybor, who fled Cuba in 1869 and moved his cigar factory to Key West.
Ybor wasn't impressed with the island's labor force and sought a location where he could build what would essentially be a company town with the cigar plant as its centerpiece.
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