Details for Cooks Point

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5051007566

Data

Marker Number 7566
Atlas Number 5051007566
Marker Title Cooks Point
Index Entry Cooks Point
Address
City Cooks Point
County Burleson
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 729098
UTM Northing 3387303
Subject Codes cities and towns
Marker Year 1969
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location NE corner of SH 21 & FMM 1362 intersection Cooks Point
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size Other - explain
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)

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