Special trail signage references African-American
commerce, life once tied to Cooks Corner
About 100 people turned out to the ribbon cutting and ceremony dedicating the opening of the Heritage Trail Park at Cooks Corner on Saturday, May 16.
The trail is 2,500-foot long, five-foot wide and designed by Bay Design Group of Urbanna with three footbridges built over the ravines and streams. The signage speaks to the commerce and life centered around Cooks Corner during the years of segregation and to the ups and downs of struggles that African-Americans faced in making a way after freedom came.
The Middle Peninsula Chapter of Virginia Master Naturalists has erected flora signs that describe the ethnobotany of trees and shrubs along the low-lying streams and ravine…
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