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) |