Cooks Point
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)
30.5961° N, 96.6105° W
Where to Find It
NE corner of SH 21 & FMM 1362 intersection Cooks Point
Nearby Markers
- <0.1 mi E Near Homesite of Judge Andrew S. Broaddus Cooks Point
- 1.8 mi SW Elizabeth Chapel Methodist Church Caldwell
- 1.8 mi SW Fort Tenoxtitlan Caldwell
- 2 mi SW Cooks Point United Methodist Church Cooks Point
- 2.4 mi SE Fort Oldham Cooks Point
- 2.7 mi SW Duewall House Caldwell