20 �������������������� MOVERS & SHAKERS 20 Submitted by the Tampa Bay History Center, 8/28/2017 ���������������������������������������� In 1980, construction workers in downtown Tampa made an unexpected discovery: As they dug the foundation of a new parking garage, they uncovered the remains of more than 100 U.S. soldiers and 42 Seminole Indians, dating from the 1830s and 1840s. They all once lived on or near Fort Brooke, arguably the genesis of modern-day Tampa. That fort got its name from the man chosen to lead it – Lt. Col. George Mercer Brooke who, at the ripe old age of 37, headed up the Hillsborough River on behalf of U.S. Army to establish a fort “at Tampa Bay.” Though not here long, Brooke deserves credit for building and leading the encampment that would eventually become downtown Tampa. Clara Frye Arriving in Tampa in 1901, Clara C. Frye committed her life to providing medical care to Tampa’s black citizens. She began caring for the sick and injured black population in her Tampa home. In 1923, she moved to a small 17-bed hospital on Lamar Avenue, relying on donations ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Tampa purchased the hospital, then known as the Tampa Negro Hospital, renaming it the Clara Frye Memorial Hospital after her passing 1936. Political and economic struggles, overcrowding and ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ of the hospital in 1973. In her honor, Tampa General Hospital named a pavilion after her. In 2011, Ms. Frye was honored as one of the ten charter inductees into the Hillsborough County Women’s ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ servant, leader and visionary humanitarian. ������������������������������������������������ Though it began in 1903 as a saloon at the dusty east end of Ybor City’s 7th Ave., the Columbia Restaurant has grown into one of Florida’s most iconic eateries, with six locations throughout the state. When family patriarch Casimiro Hernandez Jr.’s health began to falter, he turned to his daughter, Adela, and her husband, Cesar Gonzmart, to carry on the family business. Both classically trained
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