Fort Blount Park

Fort Blount Park

Dedicated in 2002, Fort Blount Park commemorates Bartow’s original settlement in 1851. To learn more about Bartow’s evolution from pioneer settlement to thriving community and county seat click this stop.

  • <p>Entrance to Fort Blount Park. Polk County Board of County Commissioners.</p>
  • <p>Pioneers traveling through Prairie Land. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.</p>
  • <p>Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.</p>
  • <p>Confederate Solider, Streaty Parker of Bartow. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.</p>
  • <p>Historic L.B. Brown House. Jeremy Maready, Polk County Board of County Commissioners.</p>
  • <p>Dedication of Fort Blount Marker, 1948. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.</p>

Next Stop: Mann Manor, Est. 1925

325 Main Street, Bartow, Florida 33830, United States

  • Fort Blount Park