Cookeville Depot Museum

The Cookeville Depot was built by the Tennessee Central Railway Company in 1909 and is now home to the Cookeville Depot Museum - a lasting tribute to the impact of the Tennessee Central on the growth of Cookeville and the Upper Cumberland region. The deopot is on the National Register of Historic Places. Admission is FREE.

Cane Creek Park

Cane Creek Park is Cookeville's largest park with over 260 acres of grounds including a 56-acre lake. The park offers boat and bike rentals, fishing, picnic shelters, basketball and volleyball courts, play equipment and a concession stand.

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Cookeville Area Map

Whether you are searching for Historic Sites, Schools, Museums, Shopping Centers, Entertainment, or you just want to take a leisurely drive around town; the Cookeville Area Map will help you in your journey.

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Travel Cookeville Sign Program

A community program has made travelling to and through Cookeville as easy as 1-2-3! Travel Cookeville is a city sign project that promotes cultural, historical, recreational, agricultural, environmental, medical, and educational sites that are publicly owned, operated and located within the City of Cookeville. Look for the signs around town.

Cookeville Area History

Location has always favored Cookeville. Chosen for its two springs and its central spot in the new county of Putnam, it was chartered in 1856 as the county seat and named for Richard Fielding Cooke, the state senator instrumental in founding the county.

The town grew but the Civil War cut short its development for a time. Later, the routing of the Nashville and Knoxville railroads through Cookeville in 1890 greatly stimulated its prosperity. The rails carried out products of its farms and forests and brought in manufactured goods. After the TC built a depot west of the square, businesses and residences sprang up nearby, giving Cookeville two commercial districts, Westside and the Square.

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