Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Texas. The county was established in 1846 and was named after the 11th US President, James Knox Polk. Adjacent Counties Hardin County Liberty County San Jacinto County Tyler County Angelina County Trinity County Cities, Towns & Communities Ace Asia Barnum Big Thicket Lake Estates (part) ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Iowa. Official Website The county was established in 1846 and was named for United States President James K. Polk, who served from 1845 to 1849. Adjacent Counties Boone County Dallas County Madison County Warren County Story County Jasper County Marion County Cities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1855 and was named for William Polk, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Greenville County, South Carolina Henderson County Rutherford County Spartanburg County, South Carolina Cities, Towns & Townships Columbus (County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Minnesota. Official Website The county was created on July 20, 1858, but did not organize it at that time. It was named for the 11th president of the United States, James Knox Polk, who signed the Congressional Act that organized the Minnesota Territory and was organized in 1872 and 1873 Adjacent Counties Marshall C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Not to be confused with Des Moines County . Des Moines is the capital of Iowa and the county seat of Polk County and was originally named Fort Des Moines, which was shortened in 1857. Official Website Des Moines traces its origins to May 1843, when Captain James Allen supervised the construction of...
This cemetery is located on 3601 East Court Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Arkansas. The county was formed on November 30, 1844 and was named for James Polk, 11th President of the United States. Adjacent Counties Montgomery County Scott County Howard County Sevier County McCurtain County, Oklahoma Le Flore County, Oklahoma Cities, Towns, Townships & Communities Acorn | Bi...
Prior to the settlement of the Europeans, Polk County was inhabited by the Cherokee, and before them, thousands of years of indigenous cultures. The portion of Polk County north of the Hiwassee River was ceded by the Cherokee Nation to the US in the Calhoun Treaty of 1819. The rest of the county was part of the Ocoee District. The Cherokee were forcibly removed from here in 1838-1839 and taken ...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Florida. The first people to inhabit the area now called Polk County were the Paleoindians who arrived in Florida at least 12,000 years ago, late in the last ice age. With large amounts of water locked up in continental ice caps, the sea level was more than 150 feet lower than at present. The Florida peninsula was twice as...
Old Hamilton Place Cemetery, Polk County, Florida, USA: This cemetery is in the Polk County Cemetery Book Vol 4. Old Hamilton Place Cemetery Section 6 Township 29, Range 23, West of Lakeland, Florida.
This cemetery is located on 4909 University Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. City of Des Moines - Cemetery Maps Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 2198 K-Ville Avenue, Auburndale, Polk County, Florida. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The settlement in the area now known as Frostproof was established in 1850. This settlement, like many in central Florida at the time, was set up as a fort and was called Fort Clinch. The fort was named after the local Lake Clinch which was, in turn, named after the Seminole War commander Duncan Lamont Clinch. This settlement was abandoned only months later. By the 1880s, Frostproof began to s...
Wikipedia =Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in business, law and pharmacy. Drake's law school is among the twenty-five oldest in the country. Alumni
Fort Meade is the oldest city in Polk County, dating its origins to 1849, when it was established along a new military road from Tampa (Fort Brooke) to Fort Pierce following the Second Seminole War. The town and road were originally sited by then-lieutenant George Meade of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, whose commander named it for him. Around the start of the American Civil War a mounte...
First Presbyterian Church Memorial Garden,Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida, 33881 USA:
This project is for those from Wahneta,Polk County,Florida.
This is for those from Florence Villa, Polk County, Florida. Florence Villa is a neighborhood within the city limits of Winter Haven, Florida. It is situated nearby to the hamlet Poinsettia Park and the locality Cypress Gardens. The Florence Villa Training School for Negroes replaced an earlier African-American school built in 1916 on the corner of 2nd and Palmetto Street. By 1922 the first ...
Cemetery notes and/or description: This historic cemetery is located on the western edge of Bartow. One of the county's oldest black cemeteries, it includes the headstone of Prince Johnson, one of four black men who, along with 18 white men, voted to incorporate the town of Bartow in 1882. The 1890s graves of Andy and his wife Tamer (Reed) Moore are also found there. Andy and Tamer Moore were b...
This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Bartow, Polk County, Florida. Official Website Wikipedia The city, originally named Fort Blount, in 1851, was renamed for Col. Francis Stebbins Bartow . It is the county seat of Polk County
Lake Alfred Presbyterian Church Columbarium, Lake Alfred, Polk County, Florida, USA:
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Polk City, Polk County, Florida. Wikipedia
From GA-6/US-278 at Hwy-113 intersection, turn right then make a sharp left onto the Old Cartersville Road. The cemetery is about 0.3 mi. on the left. Established in 1955. Also known as Rockmart-Aragon Memorial Gardens . Polk County Cemetery Preservation Find a Grave
Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida. In 2019, the student population at FSC consisted of 3,073 students along with 130 full-time faculty members. The college offers 50 undergraduate majors and pre-professional programs, graduate programs in nursing, business, and education as well as post-graduate programs in nursing, education,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Missouri. The county was organized January 5, 1835, and named for Ezekiel Polk, American soldier, pioneer and the paternal grandfather of President James Knox Polk. Adjacent Counties Hickory County Dallas County Greene County Dade County St. Clair County Cedar County Cities & Villages Aldrich ...