The Ybor City cigar industry dates back to the early 1900s. The cigar industry flourished in the city’s port, close to Cuba. During that time, there were over two hundred factories producing half a billion hand-rolled cigars. Tampa cigar makers such as Findy Cigar Company also manufactured...
Ybor city was founded in the 1880’s by Key West cigar maker, Vicente Martinez Ybor. The city became known as the “Cigar Capitol of the World”. Ybor City had hundreds of cigar factories rolling more than four hundred million cigars a year. From the hundreds of factories that existed ...
torpedos, Churchills and even orange, coffee and strawberry flavoured. We stop to watch some cigar makers rolling by hand using a cutting board, Chavata (knife) and shaping tools. About one hundred years ago, factories were filled with more than a thousand cigar workers (...