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COOPER’S ROCK

Program
Legends & Lore®
Subject
Legend
Location
2810 NY-812, De Kalb Junction, NY 13630, USA
Lat/Long
44.509263, -75.340104
Grant Recipient
Town of De Kalb
Historic Marker

COOPER’S ROCK

Inscription

COOPER'S ROCK
AT 14, FUTURE AUTHOR
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
SPENT HOURS SITTING ON THIS
ROCK DREAMING DREAMS
ACROSS THE OSWEGATCHIE RIVER.
NEW YORK FOLKLORE
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2019

Local legend has it that author James Fenimore Cooper accompanied his father William Cooper to De Kalb, New York when he was 14 years old. While here he supposedly sat beside or on the rock that is now known as Cooper’s Rock. This story was published in many local papers in 1904.