Editing Ellenton, Florida (section)

==Industry==
January 2012 - [[Feld Entertainment]] purchased the Palmetto Corporate Center, a former [[Siemens]] Corp. complex here and plans to move most of its various operations and its world headquarters there over a five-year period starting with its worldwide production center.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sword|first=Doug|title=Feld Entertainment moving headquarters to Ellenton|url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120130/ARTICLE/120139968|access-date=May 11, 2013|newspaper=Herald-Tribune|date=January 31, 2012|author2=Michael Pollick}}</ref>

1900 - Fuller's Earth Plant mined clay to be used as bleaching agent and as an absorbent for oil and fat.<ref>Wiggins, J. (2003). Ellenton: its early years. Kearney, NE: Morris.</ref>

1850s to present - Agriculture was an important industry, starting with sugarcane from Gamble Plantation.  This was harvested through slave labor up until the Civil War.  Vegetable farms and citrus groves are also important industries in Ellenton.<ref>Wiggins, J.(2003). Ellenton: its early years. Kearney, NE: Morris.</ref>