BARTOW -- With space dwindling at the Polk county courthouse, County Commissioners have hired a Lakeland architect to help decide which of the building's occupants should move out. The move comes ...

1943 - Weight comes loose in dome's clock and crashes into first-floor ... courthouse in attic of Bartow house he is renovating. Only known original plans still in existence. 1987 - Polk County ...

WEBVTT The 107 year old Polk ... the new plan November fifth. Most people do not have to come down to the courthouse and so they don't know how bad it's gotten Beth Baldwin, Polk County Court ...

There are many good reasons why Polk County voters should ... would orphan the historic courthouse and perhaps lead to its demise. Under the revised plan on the Nov. 5 ballot, the historic ...