Cook's Old Field Cemetery / Copahee Plantation and Hamlin Beach

Cook's Old Field Cemetery

This plantation cemetery predates the American Revolution. It was established by early members of the Hamlin, Hibben and Leland families. James Hibben (d. 1835), one of the founders of Mount Pleasant, is buried here. Generations of ...

Cook-Rutledge Mansion

In September of 1873 James Monroe Bingham, a local attorney, State Assemblyman, and future lieutenant governor of the State of Wisconsin, purchased this land which had just been plotted as Block 14 of the Western Addition to the City of ...

McCook Post No. 34 G.A.R. Civil War Memorial

Barton County War Memorial

On October 1st, 1910, this cannon and original memorial presented to Barton County, Missouri by the members of McCook Post No. 34 G.A.R. Department of Missouri. It was dedicated to the memory of the soldiers and sailors ...

Law Offices of Sherman, Ewing, and McCook

60 Main Street

William Tecumseh Sherman

Thomas Ewing Jr.

Hugh Boyle Ewing

Daniel McCook Jr.

All four members of the law firm served with distinction as general officers in the Union Army in the Civil War.

Thomas Ewing Jr. was the first Chief Justice of Kansas, ...

Cooks Ferry

Established in 1859 by George Washington Cook. Operated by the Cook family until 1918. Then sold to the Flemings. Bought by Christy and Morrow in 1919. Known as Shippingport Ferry until (last trip 1964), bridge built across Ohio River.

Marker is ...

Cook & Brother Confederate Armory

To this building in 1862 was brought the machinery of the armory established in New Orleans at the outbreak of the War by Ferdinand W.C. and Francis L. Cook, recent English immigrants, the former a skilled engineer for the manufacture ...

Camp Cooke Memorial

1941 - 1946

First Marker:

5th Armored Division

"Victory"

Activated Ft. Knox, KY - 1 October 1941 • VAFB (then Camp Cooke) February 1942 - March 1943 • Desert & Tennessee Maneuvers - 1942 & 1943 • Deployed to E.T.O. February 1944 • Landed ...

Captain John E. Cook

Near this spot Captain John E. Cook, of John Brown’s Army of Liberation, was captured and disarmed on October 25, 1859 by Daniel Logan and others. He was hanged at Charlestown, Virginia, December 16, 1859.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Cooksville High School

1935-1949

Site of the first public high school for African Americans in Howard County. Original site of Warfield Academy, became Mount Gregory School in 1867 for African Americans and was the genesis of Mount Gregory Church. Was a public elementary school ...

Cooksville

Saving the Guns

Gettysburg Campaign When Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led his cavalry division north across the Potomac River

into Maryland in June 1863, about 400 Federals and civilians were captured and then paroled

in Brookeville. At the same time, Confederate Gen. ...