Plant City, Florida

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The Element Inside Your Bones RoadyGoat

The same element they mine around Mulberry is built into every cell in your body. Phosphorus is one of the true elements of life. It forms the backbone of your DNA, the twin rails of the double helix are held together by phosphate links. It's the P in ATP, the molecule every living cell burns for energy, so every heartbeat and every thought runs on it. And about eighty-five percent of the phosphorus in you is locked into your skeleton, where it teams up with calcium to make the hard mineral in your bones and teeth. Phosphorus is the second most abundant element in the human body, right behind calcium. So that gray Bone Valley rock isn't some alien industrial material, it's the same stuff that stiffens your spine, codes your genes, and powers your every move.

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A Megalodon Graveyard in the Dirt RoadyGoat

They don't call it Bone Valley for nothing. Mulberry's phosphate didn't form in a lab, it formed in the sea. Millions of years ago this was warm shallow ocean, and as marine creatures lived and died, their remains and the phosphate settling out of the water built up layer by layer. So the fertilizer rock is literally fossilized ocean. When the draglines tear into it, they pull up the bones too: prehistoric whale and dugong skeletons, mammoth and mastodon teeth, and the prize of every fossil hunter, the giant serrated tooth of the megalodon, a shark longer than a school bus. Many Bone Valley megalodon teeth are small, from juveniles, hinting this region was a shark nursery. That makes Mulberry one of the most famous fossil grounds on Earth, where you mine fertilizer and find monsters.

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The Tree That Named a Phosphate Town RoadyGoat

1885

You would guess Mulberry, Florida, was named for a fruit or a mineral, and the fruit guess is dead right. A railroad cutting through Polk County passed a single big red mulberry tree, and crews used the spot to drop and pick up freight. Boxes and barrels got marked 'the mulberry tree,' the stop stuck, and the town that grew up around it took the name. Here's the twist: that pretty fruit name sits on top of the richest phosphate ground in the world. Mulberry is the self-styled Phosphate Capital of the World, planted in central Florida's Bone Valley, the heart of America's phosphate-mining district. So the name is a tree, but the town's real substance is the gray rock dug from beneath it.

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Things to Do in Plant City

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Columbia Restaurant

Florida's oldest restaurant in Tampa's Ybor City since 1905. Spanish cuisine in a tile-covered palace. The 1905 salad is a tableside ritual.

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