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by tommy @ 1:06 pm

On this day in 1848, President James K. Polk, who was pretty good at acquiring land, signed the order giving 160 acres of Fort Brooke to Hillsborough County.

Hillsborough County was split in 1860, and the eastern half was named Polk County, in honor of good ol’ James K. Our neighbors became the third county in the nation so named.

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