Rodney Kite Powell
Rodney Kite-Powell is a Tampa-based historian and curator who serves as Director of the Touchton Map Library at the Tampa Bay History Center and as the official historian for Hillsborough County, Florida.
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Oct 8, 2026
Matthew PeddieHOST
Here's a way to kind of trade on, on the success of that and bring it to Tampa Bay.
Rodney Kite-PowellGUEST
Uh, you know, the land boom really started in Miami and, and Miami Beach, uh, in the early 1920s, and Davis was actually there at that time.
Rodney Kite-PowellGUEST
He grew up here in Tampa, but he moved around the state and even the country a bit.
Rodney Kite-PowellGUEST
Uh, but ended up in Miami just after World War I, saw what Fisher was doing and others were doing, uh, not just in Miami Beach, but, you know, as far north as, as Boca Raton in southern Florida.