June Cooke was born in South Windsor, Connecticut. She lived there and was a member of the South Windsor Historical Society until her marriage to David Cooke, when she moved to Rocky Hill. After retirement, she joined the Rocky Hill Historical Society as a life member.
June Cooke was founder of "The Friends of the Office of State Archaeology" where she also served as treasurer and assistant treasurer. For a time, until moving to Arizona, June published the organization's newsletter with Mae Johnson.
June became interested in the Dividend area after seeing a shear factory noted on an early Rocky Hill map. She started exploring the area for the site. Once found, June began research on what was known as the Pleasant Valley Foundry. That led to research on the entire area of industrial sites along Dividend Brook.
After 3½ years of research, June began her campaign to protect the sites by having this area of Dividend Brook designated as an Archaeological Preserve. She wrote the "Historic Report of Dividend Brook Industrial Archeological District" to meet requirements of the Connecticut Historical Commission. The Archaeological Preserve designation was granted.
All information gathered by June for the report came from primary sources.
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About the Author: June Cooke
About the Author: June Cooke
By Wethersfield Historical Society on December 14, 2011 2:57 PMComments:
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I am writing a book about antique scissors and ran across your information. It is absolutely wonderful.. Are there any old photos of the shop that I could use for my book? Any scissors produced that could be photographed? Thank you