Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Mulberry, FL

Mulberry got its name from a single mulberry tree beside the railroad tracks, where trains stopped to drop off mail and passengers and which became the community's de facto meeting place.

Mulberry's first settlers arrived in the 1840s and its first industry was logging the longleaf yellow pine forests that covered southwestern Polk County.

Mulberry was transformed in 1886, when phosphate rock was discovered in the nearby Peace River and mining replaced logging as the town's economic engine.

Mulberry officially incorporated as a city on February 12, 1901, after the phosphate industry brought the stability needed to form a municipality.

Mulberry's official motto is the 'Official Phosphate Capital of the World', and it sits in the Bone Valley, described as the world's most productive phosphate rock mining area.

Mulberry had a population of 3,952 people at the 2020 census, living in about 1,687 households.

Mulberry tells its mining story at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum, opened in 1986 inside the city's original railroad depot, which displays fossils from what was once the largest private collection of Bone Valley fossils in Florida and added a rediscovered 1880s phosphate steam locomotive in 2013.

Mulberry is the hometown of Badcock Home Furniture - the company's first store opened in Mulberry in 1904 and grew into hundreds of stores across the southeastern United States.

Mulberry is home to the Alafia River Reserve and sits at the junction of State Roads 60 and 37 in the Lakeland-Winter Haven metropolitan area.

Mulberry's children attend Mulberry High School and Mulberry Middle School, along with Kingsford, Purcell, and Sikes elementary schools, all run by the Polk County School Board.