Established in 1989, the History Center collects and preserves the distinctive and authentic historical materials of the Tampa Bay Region and presents these treasures in exhibitions, programs and publications.
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Tampa Bay History Center
Saturday, September 19 at 9:00am - Wayne Ayers Book Signing
Tampa Bay History Center Museum Store
Saturday, December 12 at 12:00pm - Cattle Drive
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Saturday, November 21 at 10:00am - Ferdi Pacheco at the History C...
801 Old Water Street
Friday, November 6 at 10:00am - Florida Conversations
Tampa Bay History Center, TECO Hall
Thursday, October 22 at 7:00pm - New Paintings of Old Florida
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Saturday, September 26 at 12:00pm
Dan Perez
ADAMO, more than just a drive...
Frank Scozzari Adamo (pronounced ah-DAH-mo) was born in 1893 and was Tampa’s war hero of World War II in Bataan, Philippines. Adamo, who was born in Ybor City, was former chief of staff of Hillsborough County Hospital. Dr. Adamo discovered a revolutionary method to treat gangrene with hy...drogen peroxide in the 1940s, making it possible to save thousands of gangrenous limbs during the war. This distinguished native Tampan served with courage, honor and personal sacrifice as an army surgeon during WWII.
He was captured and made a prisoner of war when the Japanese overran the Philippines and held as a prisoner of war for the duration.. Afflicted with Beri-Beri and other diseases he performed heroically serving his comrades as doctor, friend and lifesaver. Adamo shrank from 160 to 90 pounds while a Japanese POW in the Philippines, and continued to treat fellow POWs even while he was afflicted with beri beri and other diseases.
When First Avenue was opened in the 1940’s, a grateful citizenry named the new traffic artery Frank S. Adamo Drive in his honor. For his service in the war as chief surgeon in a general hospital he was presented the Legion of Merit Award. Frank Adamo died in Tampa on June 24, 1988.
Top left, possible photo from medical school graduation.
Top right: 1941 Lt Col Frank Adamo MD photo taken by Life magazine photographer in the Philippines early in 1941.
Oval: 1965 Group photo, bottom: Adamo, the oldest living past president of the Medical Association at 88, was made the first recipient of the award. His family was on hand the night the Ybor Optimist Club honored Dr. Frank S. Adamo in October, 1981. A plaque designating the World War II hero "El Mejor Ciudadano de Ybor City". L to R: Grandson Frank Saxon & wife, Dr. Adamo, Mrs. Adamo.
Dan Perez
DALE MABRY, Not just a highway...
TOP PHOTO: The crew of the airship "ROMA". Bottom photos: Milton H. Mabry and sons Giddings and Dale.
Dale Mabry (March 22, 1891–February 21, 1922) was an American World War I aviator. Mabry, a native of Florida, was a son of former Florida Supreme Court Justice and Lt. Gov. of Florida M...ilton Harvey Mabry (b. 1851). Dale went on to become an airship pilot and captain in the United States Army. Captain Mabry died piloting the Army airship Roma, a dirigible he was testing, when it crashed in Norfolk, Virginia on February 21, 1922. The event marked the greatest disaster in American aeronautics up to that time.Top Photo: The Roma crew (* indicates survived the crash): Front row, L to R, 1st Lt. Walter J. Reed*, Maj. John Thornell and Capt. Dale Mabry; back row, left to right, Sgt. Virgil C. Hoffman, Sgt. Joseph M. Biedenback*, Staff Sgt. Marion J. Beall, Master Sgt. Roger C. McNally, and Master Sgt. Harry A. Chapman*. All were aboard when the Roma crashed. See photos of the Roma and the crash http://www.oldbeacon.com/beacon/airships
During construction of MacDill air field in 1939, Lisbon Avenue was extended as the first road to the base and was soon renamed after Col. Leslie MacDill (MacDill Ave.) Bayshore Boulevard was a brick street that terminated at the base boundary, where motorists sometimes got stuck in the sand at the end. The best highway to the MacDill field was an extension of Vera Avenue, which was extended around 1943 to connect MacDill Air Field with Drew Field, in Drew Park. This road was soon dedicated as Dale Mabry Boulevard.
The Mabrys were a prominent family in Tallahassee. Dale Mabry Municipal Airport in Tallahassee, the city's first airport, is also named after him. The original Tallahassee Airport location was on Dale Mabry Field, a WWII Army Aircorps flight training facility. There is a Dale Mabry Elementary school named after him in Tampa.
Dale Mabry's brother, Giddings Eldon Mabry, came to Tampa in 1901 and started a private law practice. He was later joined by former judge OK Reaves, and Doyle E. Carlton (who would become Governor of Florida during the Great Depression, then rejoin Mabry & Reaves). The law firm of Mabry, Reaves & Carlton was instrumental in the development of early Tampa, and eventually became the law firm of Carlton Fields Ward Emmanuel Smith & Cutler by the 1960s; it is now known as Carlton Fields, P.A.
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1911, United Daughters of the Confederacy dedicated a memorial to soldiers from The War Between the States at the county courthouse
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1914 , Tony Jannus pilots the first commercial airplane. Service ran between St. Pete and downtown Tampa, by a seaplane.
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1926, air mail deliveries over the NY–ATL–MIA line, which included Tampa, were suspended until the route can be “lighted”
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1896, a crime wave hit Hyde Park when thieves focus on the pantries of the homes in the Tampa suburb.
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1855, The Florida Peninsular wrote that an "exploring party" under Lt. Hartsuff was attacked in the Big Cypress Swamp by Seminoles. That act, and Hartsuff’s actions that prefaced them, led to the Third Seminole War (1855-1858).
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Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1835, 104 US soldiers led by Maj Dade, were attacked and defeated by Seminoles while en route from Ft Brooke to Ft King.
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1902, pioneer Tampan and former mayor Henry C. Ferris died in Tampa.
Tampa Bay History Center Today in1863, the Florida 2nd Infantry Battalion engaged Federal forces attacking Fort Brooke (present-day Tampa). Happy Holidays!
Tampa Bay History Center Today in 1865 recently freed slaves in Hillsborough County established Bealsville, then known as Howell’s Creek, near present-day Plant City
