Ybor City Museum State Park, State park museum in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, United States.

The Ybor City Museum State Park occupies the former Ferlita Bakery, originally La Joven Francesca, at 1818 9th Avenue in Tampa's Ybor City. The brick bread ovens where Cuban bread was baked remain inside and form part of the displays on the cigar industry and the Latin community from the 1880s to the 1930s. An ornamental garden beside the building holds the casitas, small cigar-worker homes toured by a ranger.

Vicente Martinez Ybor founded the first cigar factory in 1886, transforming the area into a major manufacturing center producing millions of cigars annually. This industry drew workers from many countries and shaped the neighborhood's development for decades.

The bakery's name, La Joven Francesca, means "young Frances," and its Cuban bread sold for 3 to 5 cents a loaf, mostly to the Ybor City market. Before the building became a museum in 1973, it served as a gathering place offering coffee and snacks. In Ybor City, bread was delivered each morning like milk, and families drove a sturdy nail into the doorframe so the deliveryman could impale the fresh loaf.

The museum occupies the former Ferlita Bakery at 1818 9th Avenue in the Ybor City Historic District. A ranger leads tours of the ornamental garden and the casitas, the small cigar-worker homes. The garden can be rented after regular hours.

The casita in the garden shows how cigar workers lived with their families in small, simple rooms. This restored cottage gives visitors a direct sense of how workers and their families actually lived day to day.