Hi, my name is Pam
Rathbone and I am your Polk County, Tennessee Host.
We're looking for folks
who share our desire to put data online and are interested in
helping this project be as successful as we can make it.
If you are interested joining our group as County Host for this
website, or any of our websites, view our
Volunteer Information page
and Email Kim.
A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a
basic webpage is required.
In the meantime, we'd
be very happy to accept any data you'd care to contribute and would
like to see displayed on this site. We're looking for "raw data" -
the birth/death/marriage records, obituaries, cemetery headstone
readings, biographies, county histories, census data, pensions and
other military data. In short, we'd like to display all the items
you used to put together your family tree (rather than the tree
itself).
Email your transcribed data to us
and we'll take care of putting it online.
Polk
County was founded November 28, 1839.It was taken off
Bradley and McMinn, and named in honor of
James Knox Polk.
It is bounded on the north by
McMinn and Monroe, on the east by North Carolina, on the
south by Georgia, and on the west by Bradley County. The
greater part of Polk County is mountainous, and unfit
for agricultural purposes. There are copper mines found
in this county. They were developed many years ago, and
have been worked with success. They are known as the
"Ducktown mines." They are situated about forty miles
from Cleveland. The mines are about two miles from the
Ocoee River, in the midst of hills, surrounded by high
mountains in the distance. The principal ranges of these
mountains lie between the copper mines and Benton, and
traverse the county in a northeasterly and southwesterly
direction, occupying, perhaps, more than half its area. Communities in Polk
County include
Benton,
Copperhill,
Delano,
Ducktown,
Ocoee, and
Turtletown
,with Benton being the town seat.
