Welcome to day one of our South Tampa Neighborhood Series! Over the next few weeks, I'm taking you street by street through the neighborhoods I love most, and there was really only one place to start. Hyde Park is the neighborhood people picture when they daydream about moving to Tampa: oak canopies, brick streets, front porches, and Bayshore Boulevard just a few blocks away. Grab your coffee and let's take a stroll.

A Little History (and a Fun Fact or Two)

Hyde Park is one of Tampa's oldest neighborhoods, and it has a great origin story. In the 1880s, Henry B. Plant's bridge across the Hillsborough River opened up the west side of the river to development. In 1886, O.H. Platt, a businessman from Hyde Park, Illinois, bought farmland here and named…

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