The Official Newspaper for Foster County

Upside Down Under: Teddy's time in Tampa...

A post on Facebook about Theodore Roosevelt revealed a piece of history that was quite shocking mostly because I’ve never seen anything about this while there are multiple articles, TV spots and museum entries in south Florida.

Roosevelt and his Rough Riders spent some time in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa before disembarking for the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898 where the famous San...