The Polk family traces its ancestry on Delmarva back hundreds of years. Polk became the family name in the early 1800s when they were freed by the wife of a Somerset County plantation owner, ...
Fort Polk has been renamed to honor Gen. James H. Polk, a decorated World War II veteran. The base was previously named Fort Johnson after Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a World War I hero. The Post ...
LAKE VILLAGE — “The Polks’ Plantations and the Creation of Cotton Kingdom in the Old South” will be presented at the Lakeport Legacies history talk. Kelly Houston Jones, Ph.D, an assistant professor ...