National Historic Landmark - Will Marion Cook House

National Historic Landmark - Will Marion Cook House

This was the home (1918-1944) of the early 20th-century African-American composer, songwriter and orchestra conductor whom Duke Ellington called -The master of all masters of our people-.

Although he was classically trained, Cook turned ...

National Historic Landmark-Jay Cooke Home

National Historic Landmark-Jay Cooke Home

From 1865 until his death, this High Victorian structure was the summer home of Jay Cooke (1821-1905), the Napoleon of Finance. During the Civil War, bond sales by financier Cooke were an important source of financial ...

Bethune-Cookman University

In 1904 Mary McLeod Bethune established the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. At the time, her only assets were $1.50 in capital and a few packing cases for chairs. Through her persistent efforts, Bethune received funding ...

School for Bakers and Cooks

Fort George G. Meade

In compliance with instructions contained in a letter from Adjutant General of the Army, dated March 17, 1924, a School for Bakers and Cooks was established at Camp Meade in April of that year. Throughout its existence ...

Fort McCook

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

After the Shiloh Campaign in the spring of 1862, Confederate forces under General Braxton Bragg concentrated in the Chattanooga area. The Federal Army, under General Don Carlos Buell occupied north Alabama. Fearful of a Confederate attack, General ...

McCook Field

1917

This field is small. Use it all.

-sign at McCook Field

Entering World War I, the United States urgently needed to advance this new field of aeronautics. Thanks to the area's industrial strength, the military chose Dayton as the sight of ...

Cook's Hall

When it opened in 1858, Cook's Hall became the largest of Springfield's public halls. Its gas-lighted auditorium and gallery were the grandest in the region. A wealthy soap and candle manufacturer, John Cook, built the hall following a devastating fire ...

Capt. James Cook, R.N.

1728-1779

After two historic voyages of the South Pacific[,] Cook was cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest on his third and final voyage, with his two ships, Resolution and Discovery[.] He was searching for the western exit to the legendary ...

Sarah Cook House

During 1860, this house was rented to Mrs. Cook, a widow, who let rooms to help provide support for herself and her children. In 1855, a Springfield newspaper carried an advertisement for Mrs. Cook's photographic studio, with its "splendid Camera, ...

Cooke’s Wagon Road

Basin and Range Country

In 1846, while leading the Mormon Battalion to California during the Mexican War, Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke blazed a wagon road from New Mexico to the West Coast. The potential use of the route for ...