My Personal Project
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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 it's 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.
Thank you
Peggy McSwain
Please remember to put Polk Co. in the subject of your e-mail
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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 |
Park Trammell's image is a clickable link
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.
I would like at this time to Thank the former County Coordinator of Polk County
Odell Robinson
| WOODMAN of the WORLD | Lakeland, City Directories  |
| Articles on and off site | WHAT'S NEW updated August 12, 2010 |
Links of Interest list |
| African-American | ||
| Biographies - on site Biographies - usgw links |
Genealogies | Bartow Historical Library |
| Books | History | Chamber
of Commerce information |
| Cemeteries | Links page | |
| Census link |
Marriages | State Library and Archives of Florida |
| Military | Ayres/Ayers-1850 &before in Fl. |
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| Churches | Obituaries- |
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| Cities & Towns | POLK CO. GHOST TOWNS | Park Hotel a little news item |
| Elected Officials of Polk County and Florida- |
Polk Families - and Bios | |
| Old Polk Co.Business & Professional's | ||
| Pioneering Families of Polk Co. | Polk's people in Uniform New! | News -TIDBITS- old Polk Co. news stories- |
| Theatre's of Polk County | ||
| SCHOOL's | Voting Precincts- 1867-1868 |
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