27.9506°N / 82.4572°W · United States
Where does the river end and the bay begin? On this sheet the answer is downtown. The Hillsborough comes down from the top in wide bends, passes the towers, and opens out into water far too wide to call a river.
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The Hillsborough River enters at the top of the sheet and comes down in wide bends, narrow and dark, between grids of streets on either side. In the upper middle of the sheet it reaches downtown, a dense knot of streets on the east bank, and widens. Below that, the water opens into Hillsborough Bay, which fills the lower part of the sheet. In the mouth itself lie two pieces of made land: a small island just off downtown, and Davis Islands, a long piece of streets and curving canals reaching down into the bay. To the left, the shore draws one long, smooth curve; to the right, the port cuts the land into straight channels.
The bridges over the river read as short strokes, one after another, from downtown upstream. Green comes in small patches, a few of them along the river. Beyond the left edge, the bay divides into two lobes on either side of the long peninsula of South Tampa, and the bridges and causeways that cross Old Tampa Bay lie further west still: bringing them in would take a much wider frame, in which the river shrinks to a thread. The rail lines of the port are drawn too pale to read.
Water does two very different things here: a thin, winding line at the top, and a broad open sheet at the bottom. One ink serves both, so choose it for the bay: deep enough to carry a large area, clear enough for the bends of the river to read where it narrows. Green is sparse; the parks along the river are small. The made land at the mouth shows through its streets, and the curving canals of Davis Islands read only if the water is clearly set off from the paper.
Portrait, centred a little south of the engraved point, so that the river runs from the top edge down to its mouth and the bay fills the bottom. Davis Islands then sits in the lower middle. Westward, the South Tampa peninsula and the causeways over Old Tampa Bay stay outside, and so do the far ends of the port to the south-east. Pull back to bring in both lobes of the bay, and the river becomes a thread.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. On a sheet that runs from river to bay, the caption can say which one you lived by: a bend of the Hillsborough, a street in Hyde Park, a view of the water from Bayshore.
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Until 1880, Tampa had grown too little to need a bridge: a small ferry crossed the Hillsborough River from the end of Jackson Street. At the end of that decade a bridge was built at the end of Lafayette Street, and the Hyde Park subdivision was laid out shortly afterwards, as land on the west side of the river near the bridge went on sale. The crossing, today Kennedy Boulevard, is one of the short strokes that join the two banks just above the mouth, and the streets of Hyde Park spread out from its western end.
At the mouth of the river there were once two small natural islands. In the 1920s the developer D.P. Davis, a native of Tampa, built them up with mud dredged from the bottom of the bay and enlarged them into Davis Islands. On the sheet it is the long piece of land below downtown, threaded with curving canals.
In 1926 Hillsborough County completed a seawall and balustrade along the western shore of the bay, from Howard Avenue to Gandy Boulevard. Behind it runs Bayshore Boulevard: the long, smooth curve of shoreline in the lower left of the sheet, whose southern end lies beyond the frame.
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Up the river, a few streets were yours; down at the bay, the whole horizon was. A single sheet holds the two, the narrow and the wide.
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