Congratulations to our 2025 Polk Pioneers. View their interviews here.
Pictured left to right: Louis Warren McKnight Jr., nominated by the Davenport Historical Society; Ernestine Mason Davis, nominated by the Luster African American Heritage Museum; Bobby L. Moore, nominated by the Polk County Historical Association; Florence McNeer Hamilton, nominated by the Lake Alfred Historical Society; Alice Lorraine Peaslee, nominated by the Historic Lakeland Inc.; Virginia McKnight Glass, nominated by the Davenport Historical Society; Edwin Friedlander, nominated by the Polk County History Center (pictured is Kathryn Friedlander, wife of the late Edwin Friedlander); Richard D. Howell, nominated by the Lake Wales History Museum; and Thomas Robert Cooney, nominated by the Museum of Winter Haven History.
