Hotel History: Tampa Bay Hotel (511 rooms). The success of Henry M. Flagler’s Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine convinced Henry B. Plant that Tampa needed a spectacular new hotel. With the agreement of the town council for a new bridge across the Hillsborough River and for substantial real estate tax abatement, Plant chose New York City architect John A. Wood to design a spectacular hotel.
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The American Civil War Battle of Shiloh was bloody for the Union and the Confederates but for 140 years no one could explain the glowing wounds mystery.