Junk Removal in Fort Meade, FL

Fort Meade dates to 1849, when a military road from Fort Brooke in Tampa to Fort Pierce crossed the Peace River here. A young lieutenant named George Meade sited the post, and the town kept his name. More than 150 buildings in town are designated landmarks, and the main street has a state historic designation. The Fort Meade Outdoor Recreation Area sits off US-98 where the highway crosses the river.

That history shows in the housing: Victorian and early-1900s homes on the older streets, block homes from mid-century, and beyond the town limits, acreage. Cattle, groves, phosphate land. Fort Meade is the far south end of Rob's Polk County map, past Bartow, where the county thins out toward Hardee.

What the work looks like in Fort Meade

A century-old house that's been in one family the whole time is a serious cleanout. Attics, back porches, a smokehouse or shed, decades of everything. Rob's crew sorts for what can be donated, loads the rest, and usually needs two trailer loads. It's the job that makes an hour's drive worth doing.

The acreage brings land clearing: brush along a fence line, a lot to open up for a barn or a house pad, downed oaks after a storm. The Kubota skid steer with the grapple rides down with the trailer. Small single-item pickups in Fort Meade happen when Rob is already in Bartow or Frostproof.