Cook & Brother Confederate Armory
Cook & Brother Confederate Armory is a memorial in Clarke County, Georgia. Cook & Brother Confederate Armory is situated nearby to Cook & Brother Plaza, as well as near New Dorsey Tabernacle Baptist Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Akins Ford Arena and Sanford Stadium.
Akins Ford Arena
Stadium
Akins Ford Arena is an indoor arena in Athens, Georgia. It is part of The Classic Center campus and is intended as an upgrade to the Classic Center Grand Ballroom, which had been configured as a 2,000-seat arena. Akins Ford Arena is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Cook & Brother Confederate Armory.
Sanford Stadium
Stadium
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest American football stadium in the NCAA, and the 15th-largest such stadium in the world. Sanford Stadium is situated 3,900 feet southwest of Cook & Brother Confederate Armory.
Tree That Owns Itself
Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.
The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 1 mile west of Cook & Brother Confederate Armory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus. Five Points is situated 2 miles southwest of Cook & Brother Confederate Armory.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2 miles west of Cook & Brother Confederate Armory.
Cook & Brother Confederate Armory
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “To this building in 1862 was brought the machinery of the armory established in New Orleans at the outbreak of the War by Ferdinand W. C. and Francis L. Cook, recent English immigrants, the former a skilled engineer, for the manufacture of Enfield rifles,”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.95863° or 33° 57′ 31″ northLongitude
-83.36608° or 83° 21′ 58″ westOpen location code
865RXJ5M+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 11803418993OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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