{"id":36194,"count":1,"description":"Cook Station is an unincorporated community in southern Crawford County, Missouri, United States. It is located about ten miles south of Steelville.\nThe village of Cook Station was named after Christopher Columbus Cook who was born Aug. 13, 1828 in Tennessee. Christopher Columbus Cook first visited Missouri in 1848, returned briefly to his native state, then came back to settle in Crawford County during the 1850s with his father and mother, David and Rhode Cook.\nThe Cook's were of German descent and were farmers. David Cook was granted 2,000 acres of land from President Buchanan around 1850 in the Meremec River valley in what would eventually become known as Cook Station. Christopher Columbus Cook had Southern family ties and sympathies, joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War and served as the captain of Missouri Company F, 5th Infantry. Violence racked the Cook Station community during the Civil War. Land to the south was owned by the Cook's who were slave owners. Land to...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/cook-station\/","name":"Cook Station","slug":"cook-station","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/36194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=36194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}