Replacing Fort Brooke

Established on January 22, 1824 and first known simply as the “camp on the Hillsborough River,” Fort Brooke is arguably the genesis of modern-day Tampa. Presented in partnership with the Florida Public Archaeology Network and the History Center, this exhibit showed the fort, and with it the evolution of downtown Tampa, as you’ve had never seen it. Displays included digitally-rectified overlays of the original fort, early maps and plans for Tampa’s Garrison District, and artifacts recovered from the site during the 1970s and 1980s.