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by TBHC @ 8:25 am

80 years ago today…

January 30, 1926 – The Seaboard Air Line Railway places an embargo against freight received at Tampa ports by water from trans-shipment to interior ports in the state, threatening to isolate the port of Tampa.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center

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