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The phosphate deposits in the nearby area were generally mined out by the 1920s, and mining operations shifted to the Hopewell area about 15 miles south of Plant City. In 1913 the Coronet Company purchased the Pembroke Mine facility, located between Fort Meade and Bartow in Polk County , from the French company Compagnie Generale des Phosphates ...
A phosphogypsum stack located in nearby Fort Meade, Florida, the Piney Point stack encloses wastewater. Borden Chemical opened an industrial plant on the site in September 1966 to process phosphate, a key ingredient in fertilizer. [1] By 1970, it had been discovered that the plant was dumping waste into Bishop Harbor, resulting in fish kills.
Rotary gondolas such as these are used by CSXT to transport phosphate rock from the Bone Valley region to transloading facilities along Tampa Bay -- Edison, Florida.. Large walking draglines, operating twenty-four hours a day in surface mines, excavate raw pebble phosphate mixed with clay and sand (known as matrix).
Alafia River State Park is a Florida State Park, located near Picnic in Hillsborough County in central Florida, 17 miles southeast of Tampa on County Road 39.Even before it became a park, the area, and particularly Hurrah Lake, was the center of leisure activities since the early 1880s.
Brewster is a ghost town in southwest Polk County, Florida, United States, ten miles south of Mulberry. It is at an elevation of 143 feet above sea level and has been uninhabited since the early 1960s. The population is 3, according to the 2010 Census. The village of Brewster was founded in 1910 and for decades flourished from phosphate mining.
Pond in Saddle Creek Park, Polk County, Florida. Saddle Creek Park is a 740 acre park located between Winter Haven and Lakeland in Polk County, Florida [1] It is on the site of three main lakes and a great many other abandoned phosphate pits, providing a large area of fishable shoreline. [2] Over 175 species of birds have been recorded at the ...
The Balm-Boyette Scrub Nature Preserve is a 5,723-acre (2,316 ha) preserve located in Hillsborough County, Florida. [1] It was purchased through joint funding from the County's Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program (ELAPP) and the State of Florida's Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) Program. While it consists largely of ...
Liverpool was a phosphate mining town in Florida and was named for its founder, John Cross, from Liverpool, England.Liverpool was most likely chosen because it was on the Peace River, which provided a way that mined phosphate could be transported to Charlotte Harbor.