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| Hello! I am your new host for the Polk County, FLGenWeb Project,Inc. site. I welcome any comments you may have about my site as well as its contents, I am always looking for more material to add and Welcome any material you may think would add to the History of Polk County, There are several little towns and places that never quite made the town list I would also like to post them here amoung my pages. |
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Peggy McSwain
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Polk County Florida, became the 39th.
county in Florida on
February 8,1861,
when the State of
Florida
divided Hillsborough Co. into eastern and western halves. The eastern
half was named Polk,in honor of the 11th.President of the United
States,James Knox Polk . Polk was sworn in as president on the day
after Florida's March 3rd.,1845 Statehood.
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 Post Card of early down town Lakeland- a site which is now called Munn Park, and has gone through many changes over the years. card donated by- Stephanie Cecil, from her personal collection. Thank you Stephanie. 
Florida Governor: Park Trammell,
b: April 9,1867-d:May 8,1936Periods in Office: Jan.7,1913-Jan.2,1917 Florida's 21st.Governor,graduated from Cumberland University in Lebanon,Tenn. practiced law in Lakeland, Fl. In 1900 he was Mayor of Lakeland and reelected in 1901.Buried in Roselawn Cemetery,Lakeland, Fl.-more |
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Photos were provided by; Florida Photographic Collection.
names read as left to right; #1-.T.F.Hollbrook #2-J.Everett Bryant #3-E.S.Whidden
#4- R.C.Langford #5- A.J.Lewis
I would like at this time to Thank the former County Coordinator of Polk County
Odell Robinson
State Coodinator - Ray Richard
NOTE: The Link I Had To The Historical Library located in Bartow , Is NO MORE
Seems they feel it is no longer needed- I am told- If it returns, Most likely a lot of the
Info They had on line, Will Not Rerurn.
SO SAD It is all lost
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