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by TBHC @ 10:35 am

50 years ago…

August 18, 1956 – Florida State Senator Paul Kickliter makes an offer of 500 acres of land north of the old Henderson Field airport, about three miles north of Busch Boulevard, to the state Board of Control as a possible location for the proposed state university.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

Tags: development, education, Florida, names, on this day, state, tampa

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