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Cooks Point

Cooks Point, Burleson County

Marker Text

Founded about 1840 where colonial road from southeast crossed San Antonio Road. Settler Gabriel Jackson had two-story log cabin-trading post here. Community was named for Silas L. Cooke, who surveyed much land in this vicinity. It is now a thriving rural village. (1969)

Marker Details

Address
Location Description NE corner of SH 21 & FMM 1362 intersection Cooks Point
Marker # 7566
Dedicated 1969
Size, Type Other - explain
Code cities and towns
Latitude, Longitude 30.596367, -96.610558

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