Tuesday, December 22, 2015

City Directories

This article   from the Florida Memory Blog discusses what information can be found in city directories. Polk city directories for Brooksville covering 1959 to the early 1990's are located at the Train Depot Museum  in Brooksville. The 1926 Brooksville directory can be found on Ancestry.com in the library's e-resources.
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