Tampa's Rough Riders Monument - Ybor City, FL
N 27° 57.611 W 082° 26.757
17R E 357769 N 3093633
Located in Rough Riders Park on E. 7th Ave
Waymark Code: WM1X1H
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 07/23/2007
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This Memorial Monument Honors President Theodore Roosevelt and members of the 1st U.S. Calvary Regiment, known as the "Rough Riders". The city of Tampa was selected as the assembly and embarkation site of the U.S. military in the 1898 Spanish American War. the Bronze Plaque Honors all the Spanish American War Veterans.
This Memorial Monument and naming of this Park Honors the Tampa's "Rough Riders" organization. Founded in 1978 formed for the purpose of creating ans perpetuating a Living Memorial Honoring the 1898 Spanish American War Rough Riders.
This Memorial Monument unveiled March 1, 2003 (Tampa's Rough Riders 25th Anniversary) contains a Time Capsule with historical events of that day's celebration and the past yesteryears dating back to 1898. Included are memoirs of individual members in the Tampa's Organization Rough Riders of presant day march 1, 2003. The Monument will be reopened in the year 2028 which commemorates Tampa's Organization Rough Riders 50th Anniversary.
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