COOPER’S ROCK
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Legends & Lore®
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Legend
- 2810 NY-812, De Kalb Junction, NY 13630, USA
- 44.509263, -75.340104
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Town of De Kalb
COOPER’S ROCK
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COOPER'S ROCKAT 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.
