New Mexico artist Bob Haozous will spend the next day or so assembling his 2-ton artwork that's part of an expansion of Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park in downtown Tampa. ...more

March 25, 2009

Guests of all ages are invited to take a trip back in time. The Hillsborough River State Park will present its annual four-day Fort Foster Living History and Period Rendezvous today through Sunday. ...more

February 12, 2009

Guests of all ages are invited to take a trip back in time. The Hillsborough River State Park will present its annual four-day Fort Foster Living History and Period Rendezvous Thursday through Sunday. ...more

February 11, 2009

The news media got a sneak peek Wednesday of the new Tampa Bay History Center, just days before its grand opening Saturday. The museum, on Garrison Channel in Tampa's Channel District, tells the 12,000-year story of Florida's history through centuries-old artifacts and modern audiovisual exhibits. Visitors can walk through a replica of a cigar shop from 1920s-era Ybor City and experience the Seminole Wars in a multisensory theater. Maps dating as far back as the 16th century are on display, as are Florida's Cracker culture and the civil rights movement in the Bay area. ...more

January 15, 2009

Beneath a small canvas lean-to Sunday afternoon, Ross Lamoreaux of Brandon hand-stitched a blue sailor's tunic while historical reenactors and modern-day tourists mixed nearby. ...more

August 31, 2008

The Seminole leader Wild Cat, captured with Osceola under a flag of truce during a meeting with U.S. Army officers, became one of the most feared leaders of the Second Seminole War. ...more

July 20, 2008

When Martha Leiman brought a cake to Army Sgt. Roland Wilson, encamped at Tampa Heights, Cupid tagged along. ...more

June 8, 2008

DOWNTOWN - The 6.3-acre Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, next the Tampa Marriott Waterside along Garrison Channel, could receive funding for its final phase. The city council will be asked Thursday to approve more than $2.8 million for the project, parks and recreation director Karen Palus said. The work includes adding 600 linear feet to the city's Riverwalk, and creating a Heroes Plaza to honor firefighters, law enforcement officers, rescue workers and military personnel killed in the line of duty. ...more

May 12, 2008

Organizers tout it as a chance for guests of all ages to witness how Florida history unfolded more than a century and a half ago. ...more

February 7, 2008

Organizers tout it as a chance for guests of all ages to witness how Florida history unfolded more than a century and a half ago. The public is invited to the Fort Foster Rendezvous, an annual four-day event beginning Thursday that features the re-enactment of pioneer life during the mid-1800s Seminole Wars period in a military garrison at Fort Foster. ...more

February 7, 2008