John Cooke Memorial, Fairhaven
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- 1860-1955
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Item caption: John Cooke Memorial, Fairhaven.
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Black and white photo of John Cook Memorial, Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Roughly triangular shaped boulder with circular plaque; monument set against shrubs, trees. Mounted on tan cardboard with gray lined borders; typed label on back: "Inscription on a Tablet on the/ Memorial Boulder at Oxford, Fairhaven, Mass./ marking the burial place of John Cooke, son/ of Francis Cooke, the lad of the Mayflower/ passengers./ Sacred to the Memory of/ John Cooke/ Who was buried herein in 1695./ The last surviving male Pilgrim of those/ who came over in the 'Mayflower'./ First white settler of this town./ The pioneer in its religious, moral/ and business life. A man of character/ and integrity, and the trusted agent for/ this part of the Commonwealth of the Old/ Colonial Civil Government of Plymouth./ This tablet in the Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, Mass./ 'In memory of/ John Cooke/ Pilgrim - Pioneer - Preacher.'"
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- New Bedford Free Public Library
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- Photograph Collection
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- Parks
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- PhotographsPhotographic printsLandscape photographs
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- John Cooke Memorial, Fairhaven. 1860-1955. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cn69mr430. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
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- (1860-1955) John Cooke Memorial, Fairhaven. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cn69mr430
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