Ingra Battles of Tallahassee, Florida?
Question by Brian Smith: Ingra Battles of Tallahassee, Florida?
In part one of a three part series exploring the history of Gadsden County, we take a look at the town of Havana. The town was a major producer of tobacco more than a century ago. And as ABC27′s Mika Highsmith uncovers, while those roots have dried up, the economy is still growing.
It’s history that hangs on the wall of Wayne Gregory’s antique shop in the form of a picture. His father was a tobacco grower, part owner of a prominent crop. Wayne Gregory says, “He was in the tobacco field about 100 years ago.” His picture, a snapshot of the town of Havana back in the 1900′s. Gregory says, “It was what the whole county was about.”
Town manager Howard McKinnon says “We’re named after Havana, Cuba because tobacco was a prominent crop here for making cigars.”
The town was attractive because of it’s proximity to the railroad in fact McKinnon says when the railroad moved the whole town moved. The town of Havana, now sits about a mile away.
Town Manager, Howard McKinnon says the industry thrived for more than half a century, but like the railroad it also relocated. The lose eliminated jobs and created an economic hardship. McKinnon says, “Some of it went to Cuba some of it went to the Caribbean islands. The tobacco industry played out in the 1970′s.” Gregory says, “When the shade tobacco business went out, the town kind of went away.”
Today even in tough times, residents say the town with a population of less than 2,000 people, is on a comeback.
Gregory says, today we’re trying some new things and it seems to be working. The economy is not good but were doing the best we can. We think we’ve got a good future.” McKinnon says, “Part of our vibrancy is our downtown area, we have a lot of little unique shops.” A wide variety of choices from Wayne Gregory’s antique shop “Planters Exchange” which has been around since the start of the town. Then there’s newcomers like Ingra Battles “Miss T’s Sets”-a boutique with everything from fancy stemware to china. The face of Havana seems to be ever changing. Battles says she is the first African American owner in the historic district. She says she visited town one time and was convinced. Battles says she fell in love with it’s unique charm and genuine people. “I said this is it, I’m like one of the girls now. We opened up in October and people have just been responding. ”
It’s a refreshing spirit that prevails even after hardship, the reason residents refer to Havana as “The friendliest small town.” Battles says, “It’s a good feeling to see people happy.” McKinnon says, “Come visit us and you’ll like what you see.”
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Ingra Battles is a 35 year old female that lives in Tallahassee, florida and is currently the owner of Miss T’s Sets in Havana, Florida. She has HIV and she has unprotected ***** with men without telling them she has HIV. She appears to be healthy and is quite attractive but she has been infected with HIV for over 14 years now. People knew something was wrong when she refused to take a blood test. I went to the police to report her but they said it would take a while to pull her health records from the Health Department . When we were together, i was told by Ingra’s best friend that Ingra was sleeping with her current business partner. I’m sure her partner does not know of her STD. In my opinion, Ingra Battles should be considered a murderer and be locked up for manslaughter. Instead, she is free to live in this society with people who want to live long lives and she preys on them with her innocent appereance and sweet talk Something should be done about this.
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