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Welcome to Polk County
Oregon Genealogy Research
Main St Dallas Oregon 1874
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Polk County Oregon
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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County Data
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Brief
History:
The Oregon Provisional
Legislature created Polk County from
Yamhill District on December 22, 1845,
granting to
it the entire southwestern portion
of present-day Oregon to the California
border. County boundaries were
periodically changed to reflect the
creation of Benton and Lincoln counties.
Many other counties were subsequently
carved out of these as settlement
spread towards the south, leaving Polk
County many counties away from its
former border with California.
The first county seat was a
settlement on the north side of Rickreall
Creek named Cynthian (also known as
Cynthia
Ann). In 1852 city officials
renamed Cynthian to Dallas after Vice
President George M. Dallas, vice president
(1845–1849) to James Polk. During
the 1880s and 1890s, there were a series
of unsuccessful efforts to move the
county seat to nearby Independence.
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