Pollok Inc history

Edmunds received little formal education, but he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849.

During the 1864 Red River Campaign of the Civil War, one skirmish occurred in present-day Pollock.

The Iron Mountain construction was begun in 1889.

In 1892, Gould built the Big Creek Sawmill and Lumber Company at the present site of Pollock.

The 1894 act had provided (for a five-year term) that “gains, profits and incomes” in excess of $4,000 would be taxed at 2 percent.

Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co. (1895), in which he argued successfully before the United States Supreme Court that the income tax was unconstitutional.

Following Jay Gould's death, Big Creek Sawmill and Lumber Company was owned and operated by his son until it and most of the town of Pollock was destroyed by a devastating fire in 1906.

Later, it would serve as home to the first Mayor of Pollock, E. Fletcher Kelly, under the original charter of 1910.

Today, the original structure serves as the rear portion of the three story Greek Revival addition built in 1912 by Sheriff L.O. Clinton.

The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the power “to lay and collect taxes on incomes.”

27, 1919, Pasadena, Calif.), United States senator and constitutional lawyer, who for a quarter of a century was a participant in the most important legislative developments of the time.

In 1928, the affairs of the Bank of Pollock were liquidated due to bank failure.

In 1940, Laborer and Housewife were the top reported jobs for men and women in the US named Pollock.

The Grant Dogwood Festival, Inc. originated in 1960 as a tour of the beautiful Dogwood trees that grow in and around Pollock.

The Foster family donated the property and home to the Town of Pollock in 2010, and a nearly one million dollar restoration took place, with the Town of Pollock borrowing no money for the endeavor.