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Cooke City, Montana

On September 7, General Howard and his men, passing through Cooke City, noted that miners had armed themselves and manned a stockade, to barricade themselves against the Nez Perce. The events that unfolded in Yellowstone had everyone on edge, but ...

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Cooke City, Montana

September 7, 1877 - General Howard passes Cooke City

“The soldiers fixed up the Baro nett bridge, burned by a war-party, and marched on up Soda Butte Creek and passed Cooke City, where several pioneer miners volunteered to ...

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Cook Homestead

This plot marks the site of the home of John Cook, pioneer settler, who with his wife Diantha J., and children Freddie W., Mary E., and John W., were murdered by Indians April 26, 1872.

Marker can be reached from County ...

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In Memory of Captain James Cook, R.N.

In Memory of the great circumnavigator

Captain James Cook, R.N. who discovered these islands on the 18th of January, 1778, and fell near this spot on the 14th of February, 1779.

This monument was erected in November A.D. 1874 by some of ...

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Dedicated to the Memory of James (Jim) Earnest Cook

1884 – 1955

Beloved lifelong citizen of Cochran and Bleckley County, he was a banker, farmer, mayor, Rotarian, Mason, Shriner and a never failing friend to all. His example to do all men good helped shape the lives and destiny of ...

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Battle of Cook's Mill

[English Text]: Battle of Cook's Mills

In October 1814 an American army advanced from Fort Erie toward the British line along the Chippawa River. Lieutenant-General Drummond ordered a reconnaissance towards Cook's Mills on his right flank in hopes of finding ...

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Donald J. Cook ( 1915 - - 2005 )

“I felt called to teach as some men feel called to preach.” - - - D.J. Cook

Donald J. Cook, born at Rock Island, Il. B.A., Augustana College, 1937, M.S., U. Of Illinois, 1938, Ph.D., Indiana U., 1944, also served ...

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Assassination of F.M.B. "Marsh" Cook

On July 23, 1890, Marsh Cook of Jasper County was gunned down by six men after warning citizens that the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention would likely limit voting rights and disfranchise black voters. Cook was a white Republican candidate for ...

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Cook Memorial Library

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on North Milwaukee Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Pemtegwacook

Native Americans first paddled dug-out canoes up and down the Penobscot River about 8,000 years ago. Seeking rich hunting and fishing grounds, these people had come to live on the wooded shores of the river and bay.

Archaeology has revealed traces ...

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