Boundaries - Historical Notes

The following is a summary of acts which authorized boundary changes for Polk County.

1. Acts of 1853-54, Chapter 177, Section 2, added the land of Charles McClary to Polk County from McMinn County.
2. Acts of 1859-60, Chapter 135, changed the boundary between Polk and Bradley Counties by moving into Polk County the houses and lands of James B. Cook, William J. Dowell, R. S. Warren, J. Y. Davison, W. S. Noriss, John Cate, F. M. Cate, Matthew McNabb, A. Breadwell and William Singleton.
3. Acts of 1873, Chapter 69, changed the Polk and McMinn County line to place the land of M. L. Phillips, known as the Phillips Ferry farm, in McMinn County.
4. Acts of 1889, Chapter 65, placed all the lands of N. S. Price in Polk County, out of McMinn County. This act was amended by Acts of 1893, Chapter 1, to place the lands of Levina Price, the wife of N. S. Price, in Polk county also.
5. Acts of 1905, Chapter 178, placed the lands of John M.Dunn and Charlie Smith in the First Civil District of Polk County, out of the Seventeenth Civil District of McMinn County.
6. Private Acts of 1935, Chapter 239, added a portion of Polk County to McMinn County to be known as the 6th civil district of McMinn and the voting in said district was to be done at the Linsdale School House.
7. Private Acts of 1937, Chapter 305, changed the boundary between Polk and McMinn County to detach all of the land of Charles Melton from Polk County and place it in McMinn