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Polk County Family...

• Polk County Historical & Genealogical Society
• Dr. Flemming's Patient List
• Letters from the Past
• Land Grants
• Deeds
• Biographies
• Pension Applications
• Wills
• Bible Records
• Do you know...?
• Marriages
• Polk Folk Website Connections

Map Sources

• The Maps our Ancestors Followed
• Genealogy Atlas

Land Records

• Lot Sales in Benton, TN
• Early Land Entries of the Ocoee District

Polk County Census Information

• Beginner's Guide to the Federal Census
• USGenWeb Census Project, Inc.
• 1840 Census Index
• 1850 Census Index
• 1870 Census
• 1880 Census
• 1920 Census Index
• Census Finder-A Directory of Free Census Records
• Census-online- TN
• CensusDiggins.com (Not just Polk, but a good source!)

Civil War Troop Information

• National Parks Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Search Engline
• Polk County Confederate and Union Pension Application Information
• Presidential Pardons
• Tennessee and the Civil War

• Company C, Third TN Confederate Infantry
• TSLA Confederate Pension Name List
• Nancy Ward Rifles
• Register of Co. F of the 19th TN Infantry
• Polk County, TN Civil War Companies
• Tennessee CW Units Searchable Database
• Thomas' Legion Company I
  - Cherokee County, NC area
• Transcription of James H. Darr's Civil War Diary
• Civil War Reminisces of Sam M. Paul

• 3rd TN Mounted Infantry Regiment, USA

Death and Cemetery Records

• Polk County Church and Cemetery Information
• Polk County Death Certificates 1908 -1910
• TSLA Death Records - 1914-1922
• May 1849 - June 1850 Deaths
• June 59-May 1860 Deaths
• Area Cemetery Listings by Charles Voyle
• Polk Cemetery Locations
• Mt. Hermon Methodist Church Cemetery
• Polk County Obituaries
• Cherokee Scout Obituary Index

Some Interesting & Useful Sites at TNGenWeb...

• 1851 Cherokee Residents
•  Cherokee by Blood - Jerry Wright Jordan's
• People of Color in Old Tennessee
• TNGenWeb Book Finder
• Trail of Tears Map
• East Tennessee Historical Society

Tennessee County and Other Links

• Polk County/Copper Basin Chamber of Commerce
• National Register of Historical Places - TENNESSEE (TN), Polk County
• Ocoee Info
• Tennessee Overhill and Ocoee
• Tennessee Place Names
• Tennessee Vital Records Information
• National Archives

Polk County Schools

• Charleston High School Class of 1955
• Boyd's School
• Puddin'Foot-1909
• Polk County High School Students 1913-1928
• Miss Blanche's Class c1950 (from a Polk County Elementary School)

Miscellaneous Polk County Records

• Lookup Volunteers for Polk County
• Some Early Records of Polk County
• Goodspeed's Polk County, TN
• Polk County Money (photo provided by Maria Carruth)
• "Bradley County Scrapbook" Index
• TnGenWeb Polk County, TN Archives
• Tennessee Newspapers on
  Microfilm available from the TSLA
• TSLA list of books on Polk County Towns
• Polk County Chamber of Commerce

Other Useful Research Websites

• Yale Peabody Museum-Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• Settlers and Intruders onto Cherokee Lands
• East TN Post Offices by Sharon McCormack
• McMinn Co., TN Historical Society
• Hamilton County Tennessee Genealogy Society
• The Migration Project
• Polk County, TN Genforum
• Tennessee WWII Army Casualties
• The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site
• Tennessee County Information from the Tennessee State Library (TSLA)
• Memorial Day History & Information on U.S.Memorials

www.tngenweb.org/polk