Books Available for Purchase

Polk County Heritage Book:   733 family stories, church, organizations, community histories - all in a 400 page beautiful hardbound gold stamped cover and spine, surnam index. Now in our third reprint - only a limited number presently available. Over 1,500 copies have been sold. Makes a wonderful birthday, Christmas or other special occasion gift for anyone with Polk County roots or interest. Contact the Polk County Historical &Genealogical Society for cost or more information. <presswood at wingnet.net>

Now in it's second printing:  The Resting Places: Inscriptions of Polk County Cemeteries by Jo Ann Finnell. A great  resource of every legible inscription in every known cemetery in Polk County - nearly 200 cemeteries. Approximately 690 pages, hardbound, full name index, location, GPS coordinates, everything you could want in a book like this.

Fun, Facts, & Philosophy: The Diary of John Coffee Williamson 1858 - 1861,
Edited by Dr. Ben McClary, 166 pages, over 1,000 name index, 55 page introduction full of 'tidbits' of Polk County history, much of which was gleaned from 1954 interviews of JCW descendents. Harbound.

 PCHGS is proud to have published every single extant census in the past eight years since
      reorganization in May of 1995 and all are available for sale at a very reasonable price.
                     1840 Polk county Census
                     1850 Polk County Census
                     1860 Polk county Census
                     1870 Polk County Census
                     1880 Polk County Census
                     1900 Polk County Census
                     1910 Polk County Census
                     1920 Polk County Census
                     1930 Polk County Census

The History of  Polk County by Roy G. Lillard and edited by Marian Bailey Presswood. 400 pages, hardbound, full name index, history of the county from its Cherokee Territory days until the present. Valuable appendix information includes lists of servicemen from several wars, county officials and much more. Pictures at the end of each of the 12 chapters.

Marriage Records Polk County Tennessee 1894-1970: Compiled by Jennie V. Poteet-Pitts and published by Viola Jones. Alphabetical. Softbound.

The Old Homeplace: by retired Forest Service employee, Thurman Parish, Jr. 103 pages of "Faces and Places" in the mountains of Polk County before there was a Cherokee National Forest. Softbound.

Confederate History of Polk County: by A. J. Williams: Mr. Williams was a County Chairman, County Court Clerk, and a Clerk and Master in early Polk County. A "must have" for anyone interested in the Civil War in Polk County. Softbound.

Vital Statistics 1911-1912: transcribed by PCHGS Secretary/Treasurer Jo Ann Finnell. 26 pages soft spiral bound. Bonus: First automobile owners in the county listed in the back.

Back issues of the PCHGS Quarterly are available, Vol. 1-9 four issues each volume except No. 1 Only 3 quarterlies were published our first year, 1995.

1931 Chilhowee: 32 page softbound copy of the first yearbook of Polk County High School.