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The Polk County Courthouse is a historic building in Benton, Tennessee. It serves as the courthouse for Polk County, Tennessee. Three courthouses were built for Polk County before this one. The first one was built in 1840, the second one in 1851, the third one in 1897. The fourth and current courthouse was built in 1937. [2]
Polk County was created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on November 23, 1839. The location for the county seat of Benton was chosen by an election held on February 4, 1840. [1] Copper was discovered in Ducktown in 1843. By the 1850s, a large mining operation was underway in southeastern Polk County; the area became known as the ...
Location of Polk County in Tennessee. ... Polk County Courthouse. June 24, 1993 : Bounded by U.S. Route 411 and Ward, Commerce, and Main Sts. Benton: 16 ...
Polk County Courthouse in Benton There were 468 households, out of which 26.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.6% were married couples living together, 12.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families. 31.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.5% had someone living alone ...
Polk County Courthouse (Tennessee) R. Reliance, Tennessee; W. William Wiggins House This page was last edited on 11 June 2016, at 03:18 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Country singer Jason Aldean is facing backlash for featuring Maury County Courthouse, the site of a Black teen’s lynching in 1927, in his music video. ... Beyond Choate, more than 230 Black ...
On February 13, 1801, in the famous "Midnight Judges" Act of 1801, 2 Stat. 89, Congress abolished the U.S. district court in Tennessee, [4] and expanded the number of circuits to six, provided for independent circuit court judgeships, and abolished the necessity of Supreme Court Justices riding the circuits. It was this legislation which ...
A Tennessee driver is dead following a single-car rollover on that happened shortly after 2 p.m. March 12 on I-26 East in Polk County, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.