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Historical
Markers - Rock Co., WI
Village
of Cooksville
Wisconsin Official
Marker
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Located north
of Hwy. 59 on Church Street at the
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Cooksville Community
Center in Cooksville, Porter Township
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Courtesy of
Kurt Wheeler, Rock County Planning & Development Agency
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- 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 Massachusetts laid out Waucoma east of Cooksville.
The two villages were settled by people from New England, New
York, the British Isles, and, later, Norway. But the little village,
known as Cooksville because of the post office's location, was
by-passed by railroads in the 1860s, becoming "the town
that time forgot."
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- Erected in 1996
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©2006
ALHN-Rock Co., Wisconsin
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