Polk County’s population increased by 93 percent between 1900 and 1910. Winter Haven’s population more than tripled from 429 to 1436...

WINTER HAVEN’S EARLY HISTORIC AFRICAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Florence Villa Station In the late 1990s Winter Haven completed a series of...

HENRY SNELL OPENS WINTER HAVEN’S FIRST BANK In 1892 a man named Henry W. Snell left his home in Georgia and relocated to the Polk County...

FREDERICK INMAN, M.D. AND FLORENCE VILLA In 1887 Dr. Frederick William Inman and his wife Florence Jewett Inman came to the area from...

The railroad brought development to central Florida and Polk County. Travel guides and brochures from the 1870s and 1880s describe the...

ABOUT THE CHINABERRY TREE In the beginning years of Winter Haven’s history, the early 1900s, a Chinaberry tree grew in the east-bound...