Tampa Soul Walk will unveil historical markers for Jackson House and The Scrub

Meet at the Robert Saunders library.

click to enlarge The Jackson House in Tampa, Florida - Photo by Ray Roa
Photo by Ray Roa
The Jackson House in Tampa, Florida
Tampa’s changing faster than many are comfortable with, but as a consolation, the city has unveiled a bunch of new historical markers as of late.

The latest is one near downtown Tampa’s Soul Walk, an African-American heritage art trail that brings the story of the city’s Black residents to the public. Two new markers set to meet the world on Thursday will recognize the historic Jackson boarding house (in disrepair, currently, and more or less begging the Acardi parking conglomerate for a little space to renovate and restore), plus The Scrub, which was once Tampa’s largest Black neighborhood.

There's no cover to take part in Soulwalk Historical Marker Dedication for The Scrub and Jackson House happening Thursday, July 13, at 11 a.m.  at the Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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