Cooke Family Home, 515 West Green St.

The Southside's African-American Heritage Walking Tour (Historic Brochure Edition 2003)

Cooke Family Home, 515 West Green St.

Ithaca, New York 14850, United States

Created By: Ithaca Heritage

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The Cooke family came to Ithaca from Virginia in the 1890s. The home has passed from mother to daughter ever since. The house was a stop on the Underground Railroad. African-American men who helped build the Ithaca to Owego railroad in the 1860s also boarded here.

**This tour is from the 2003 printed "The Southside's African-American Heritage Walking Tour" brochure prepared by the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership with research by Leslyn McBean & Ingrid Bauer; modified for PocketSights by The History Center in Tompkins County in 2022. Text is unchanged from the original printing.**

This point of interest is part of the tour: The Southside's African-American Heritage Walking Tour (Historic Brochure Edition 2003)


 

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