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Rodney Kite-Powell is the Director of the Touchton Map Library and Florida Center for Cartographic Education at the Tampa Bay History Center, where he joined the staff in 1995. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida and a Master of Arts from the University of South Florida—both in the subject of U.S. history. Born and raised in Tampa, Fla., he has written and lectured extensively on the history of Tampa, Hillsborough County, and Florida.
Kite-Powell is an officer with the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress, where he serves on the Academic Committee. In 2019, he was named the official county historian for Hillsborough County by the Board of County Commissioners. He is the author of three books, including History of Davis Islands: David P. Davis and the Story of a Landmark Tampa Neighborhood (2013), Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club: A Centennial Celebration (2016), and Tampa Bay’s Waterfront: Its History and Development, co-authored with Arthur Savage (2017).
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