Bowling Green is in Hardee County and has a population of about 3,000. It is on US-17 between Fort Meade and Wauchula and about 55 miles east of the Bradenton - Sarasota area. It has a population of 2,400.
One of the first settlers in the area was originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky and moved to this part of Florida in 1883. He homesteaded in the area and gave 40 acres to the railroad, which came to town in 1886.
