Here are more images from the Cooksville Archives and Collections, documenting, in part, the history of the village since the 1840s to the present...
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Cooksville School Class, 1954: "Save the Badfish Creek" |
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Eddie Julseth (1915-2011), Cooksville General Store owner. |
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Katie and Dennis Ehle in the Cooksville General Store, owners, photo c.1987. |
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John Savage (1879-1967) with Chinese children, c.1944, where he designed the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. John grew up in Cooksville with its three dams on the Badfish Creek.
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Larry Reed signing the Three Gorges Dam Museum guest book after donating John Savage materials from Cooksville to China in 2000
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| Most of the subjects of John Wilde's "15 Cooksvillians" painting and print, at the Schoolhouse, 1997.
Bob and Martha Degner's Cooksville Float on their historic truck.
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