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Cook County, forty miles north of the Florida border in south central Georgia, is the state’s 155th county.
The 229-square-mile county was created from Berrien County in 1918. One of only twenty-five Georgia counties that still have their original boundaries, it was named for Philip Cook, a general in the Seminole Wars and the Civil War (1861-65), a U.S. congressman from 1873 to 1882, and Georgia’s secretary of state from 1890 through 1894.
Adel, the county seat, was incorporated in 1889, and the county courthouse was built there in 1939. Located at a railroad junction, Adel was first called “Puddleville” for the effect rain had on its then-unpaved streets. The name was changed in 1873. According to one story, local residents saw the name “Philadelphia” either in a gazetteer or on a crocus sack, and needing a unique name for their town, they chose the central portion of the word. (From: New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Jun 21, 2022. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/cook-county/)
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