A record of Polk County’s agricultural history dating to the 1800s has taken a big gallop forward.
Polk County’s Clerk of Courts Stacy M. Butterfield has overseen the preservation of books listing historic cattle brands.
An announcement of a publicly available digital archive of the book was made in Bartow during the Polk County Commission’s June 2 meeting with several ancestors of the county’s cattle industry present, a couple of them wearing cowboy hats…