Event Details
Sunday, Feb 12, 2017
Lecture: Sulphur Springs:Tampa's Coney Island
Time: 2:00 pm til 3:00 pm
Location: Sulphur Springs Museum, Mann-Wagon Park, 1101 East River Cove St, Tampa 33604
Description: Join us for the Our Florida, Our History Lecture Series to hear Gary Mormino talk about "Sulphur Springs:Tampa's Coney Island"
Sulphur Springs was once a tourist paradise, where local residents and visitors sought the cooling waters of a magnificent spring. In the 1920s, it boomed as developers sold lots and attracted Tin Can tourists. At the same time, Sulphur Springs has an overlooked history as “contested terrain” among different ethnic groups.
Gary Mormino, Professor Emeritus of History, Florida Studies Program, USF St. Petersburg. He is an expert in historic Southern voting patterns, history of Tampa, Florida and the American urban experience, immigration, and World War II. He is author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida and The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa.
Free and open to the public.
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