Past Events in Cooksville
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View our past events and revisit all that Cooksville has to offer. |
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Benjamin and Isaac Hoxie of Cooksville: A Ruth Ann Montgomery Presentation
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September 28, 2022 6:30 PM at the schoolhouse
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The Hoxie Brothers came to Cooksville in the 1840s from Maine. Benjamin Hoxie, carpenter and self-taught architect, opened a carpentry shop next to his house, and the brothers operated the Hoxie Door and Sash Factory. Benjamin designed and built structures in Rock, Dane, and Green counties including the Cooksville Congregational Church and the Cooksville Cheese Factory, enlarged the Cooksville store, and made beehives and butter churns. He organized a farmers’ cooperative. An avid horticulturist, he was an officer of the state horticultural Society in the 1880s and 1890s. Isaac Hoxie began his lifelong newspaper career in 1863, establishing the Stoughton Reporter and the Evansville Review.
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This event is free and open to the public
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Ruth Ann Montgomery has been fascinated by Evansville history for the last 45 years. During the time she served as library director of the Eager Free Public Library, the local history room was opened and continues to grow in resources and information. She is the author of five books on Evansville history and writes three weekly columns of Evansville history in the local papers.
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DID YOU KNOW?
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About one-third of the early settlers were from New York state, another third came directly from New Englend - Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The rest were from Pennsylvania, England, Scotland and Ireland.
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View our past events and revisit all that Cooksville has to offer. |
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Benjamin and Isaac Hoxie of Cooksville: A Ruth Ann Montgomery Presentation
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September 28, 2022 6:30 PM at the schoolhouse
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The Hoxie Brothers came to Cooksville in the 1840s from Maine. Benjamin Hoxie, carpenter and self-taught architect, opened a carpentry shop next to his house, and the brothers operated the Hoxie Door and Sash Factory. Benjamin designed and built structures in Rock, Dane, and Green counties including the Cooksville Congregational Church and the Cooksville Cheese Factory, enlarged the Cooksville store, and made beehives and butter churns. He organized a farmers’ cooperative. An avid horticulturist, he was an officer of the state horticultural Society in the 1880s and 1890s. Isaac Hoxie began his lifelong newspaper career in 1863, establishing the Stoughton Reporter and the Evansville Review.
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This event is free and open to the public
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Ruth Ann Montgomery has been fascinated by Evansville history for the last 45 years. During the time she served as library director of the Eager Free Public Library, the local history room was opened and continues to grow in resources and information. She is the author of five books on Evansville history and writes three weekly columns of Evansville history in the local papers.
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DID YOU KNOW?
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About one-third of the early settlers were from New York state, another third came directly from New Englend - Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The rest were from Pennsylvania, England, Scotland and Ireland.
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