>From what I can understand in talking with my Mother, the former Lera McCanless, when her family first moved to Cookeville, around 1920, they spent the first several days there at the Duke House [or Hotel]. It was located in the vicinity of the courthouse, on the Sparta Road. It was not a hotel in the sense we know today, but rather a boarding house. She said they arrived at the railroad depot, and went across town to the Duke House. At that time, the roads of Cookeville were not paved. A suggestion for further research, is to contact the Special Collections Librarian, Christine Spivey Jones, at Tennessee Technical University in Cookeville. You could locate TTU thru a search engine such as Infoseek, and perhaps there is a email address for the library. Dave Masters [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: A Thyme To Plant Herb Farm, Inc. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 10:13 PM Subject: DUKE/GENTRY |Does anyone have any info on John G. DUKE and Mary Jane GENTRY DUKE? And |on the Duke House (hotel) in Cookeville? Any information would be deeply |appreciated. Thanks. | |Marianne Mittwede Ritchie/VA | |