What is "dobyville"

Dobyville was a historic black neighborhood in what is now West Hyde Park, Tampa, Florida. It was named for Richard Cornelius Doby, a resident philanthropic black businessman and community leader.

Dobyville encompassed the area from North B Street on the north to Swann Avenue to the south, from Albany Avenue on the west to Willow Avenue on the east. The neighborhood's modest homes, warehouses and supporting businesses lined each side of the railroad tracks that pass diagonally thru the area from northeast to southwest. By the turn of the 20th century, Jim Crow segregation relegated the majority of Tampa’s black population to a handful of racially delineated neighborhoods including "the Scrub" (in Tampa’s Central Avenue district), West Tampa, Ybor City, Dobyville, and College Hill.