1972 Map of Cooks Still

About this map

The rural border of Dodge and Telfair Counties is defined by a landscape of creeks and small religious congregations in the early 1970s. The settlement at Cooks Still and the nearby Cook Chapel sit at the center of a network of drainage ways including Horse Creek, Cat Creek, and Alligator Creek. This area was historically served by local institutions like the West Telfair Academy, a significant landmark for those tracing the educational history of the county. The map shows a high density of country churches, such as Mt Zion Ch, Siloam Ch, and Rockwell Ch, which often served as the primary social and community hubs for the surrounding farmsteads. Smaller-scale industry is represented by a Sandpit, while family names are preserved in locations like Pearson Cem and Rebecca Ch. The terrain is marked by numerous unnamed trails and a Jeep Trail that snake through the wooded bottomlands along Little Alligator Creek.