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Speaker highlights Tampa’s 1925 growth: Booker T. Washington School, West Tampa annexation, Davis Islands and Temple Terrace
Summary
At Archives Awareness Week, Rodney Kite Powell reviewed Tampa’s 1925 milestone events: the founding and construction of Booker T. Washington School, the annexation of West Tampa, early development of Davis Islands and bonds for Tampa Municipal Hospital, and the origins of Temple Terrace.
At an Archives Awareness Week program, Rodney Kite Powell, director of the Tuttle Map Library at the Tampa Bay History Center, summarized major developments in Tampa in 1925, including school construction, annexation of West Tampa, real-estate growth, and early infrastructure projects that shaped the city.
Powell highlighted Booker T. Washington School as a significant educational investment of the 1920s: a brick school built near the Scrub and Afro‑Cuban sections of Ybor City. He said the building’s substantial materials and…
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