J.P. Cooke Building 1885-1889

The Old Market Historic Walking Tour

Omaha's first municipal swimming pool, "The New Natatorium," originated in the basement of the westernmost of these three buildings; and vestiges of it can still be seen there. The ornamental work at the building's top ...

Jay Cooke

Perhaps no individual in the history of Duluth had such a dramatic influence on the port's infant development than Jay Cooke, a Philadelphia financier. Cooke's reign at the Head-of-the-Lakes was brief, but all-encompassing for commercial development.

One of Cooke's earliest achievements ...

McCook Post No. 51 G.A.R. Civil War Memorial

This memorial in memory of

Union soldiers who fell in battle

was dedicated on May 31, 1909, and

maintained by McCook Post No. 51, G.A.R.

In 1998 the statue was refurbished and

a new pedestal was erected. On June 2, 2001

this Monument was rededicated by ...

Johnny Cook

At the Battle of Antietam, 15-year-old Johnny Cook was the bugler for Battery B, Fourth United States Artillery. During the Union First Corps attack down the Hagerstown Pike, forty of the battery's one hundred men were killed or wounded. Johnny ...

Andrew C. Cook House

In 1840, Andrew C. Cook and his wife Mary Oakes came to Wauconda Township from Vermont, via the Erie Canal, the Great Lakes to Chicago and then to Wauconda. They purchased 380 acres of land at $1.25 per acre. A ...

Abner Hugh Cook

A native of North Carolina, Abner Cook came to the newly created capital city of Austin in 1839 with a skill in design and construction that soon earned him the title of master builder. Working as architect, engineer, and contractor, ...

George Frederick Cooke

1756-1812

Acclaimed as one of the greatest actors of his day, Cooke played Richard III to an audience of 2,000 in New York. After his death, legends abounded that his skull was stolen from his coffin and secretly used in ...

James P. Cook

Leader in founding of the Stonewall Jackson Training School, state senator, editor Concord “Standard” (1888-96) and “Uplift.” Home ½ block W.

Marker is at the intersection of Union Street S and Corban Street SE (U.S. 601) on Union Street S.

Courtesy ...

Captain Cooke’s Mill Lane

1630 – 1930

The road to Captain Cooke’s grist mill, built in 1638; the first water mill in this vicinity.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (U.S. 3) and Water Street, on the right when traveling west on Massachusetts Avenue. ...

Village of Cooksville / Village of Waucoma

Village of Cooksville

?Cooksville consists of two villages: Cooksville platted in 1842 and Waucoma platted in 1846. John and Daniel Cook settled here in 1840, establishing Cooksville on the Badfish Creek, where a sawmill was soon constructed. Dr. John Porter of ...