Dobyville: Historian highlights forgotten African American history of Hyde Park

Guests at Friday’s Café Con Tampa lecture series took a trip to the past for a better understanding of one of Hyde Park’s historic neighborhoods lost to time and destroyed by development.

“You can’t tell the story of Hyde Park without telling the story of Dobyville at the same time,” Tampa Bay History Center Historian Rodney Kite-Powell said.

Hyde Park is one of the most popular areas of Tampa, but Dobyville is often overlooked. It was a middle-class African American neighborhood that developed in the Hyde Park area in the late 1800s as the phosphate and railroad industries grew, and as white residents hired African Americans in their homes for domestic help.

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