We often associate Florida with newness, but it's ironic because Florida's history is some
of the oldest in North America.
We've had people living here literally thousands of years.
We predate Jamestown, we predate the arrival of the pilgrims, all of those stories.
We are living with what came before.
You have immigrant history forming modern Tampa.
How do we connect it with what's happening today?
History is not always about just the past.
We're always living with the results of what happened 100 years ago, or 10 years ago.
That's what the History Center does, it puts those things in context.
You'll see us in maybe a different way.
You see those layers of history, of the Tampa Bay area today just by getting out and walking around.
