Friday, January 8, 2021

Cooksville Archives and Collections: More Images

Here are more images from the Cooksville Archives and Collections, documenting, in part, the history of the village since the 1840s to the present...

Cooksville School Class, 1954: "Save the Badfish Creek"


Eddie Julseth (1915-2011), Cooksville General Store owner.


Katie and Dennis Ehle in the Cooksville General Store, owners, photo c.1987.



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.

Larry Reed signing the Three Gorges Dam Museum
guest book after donating John Savage materials
from Cooksville to China in 2000





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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