The Cookeville Branch was organized in the later part of the 1960's as part of what would become the Nashville Stake (in 1970). They met in the basement of a grocery store at first and then moved into the Veteran's Building in downtown Cookeville. In 1973, they got their own building, (981 S Walnut, in Cookville) which was added upon in 1976, the same year the branch became a ward. The building was further upgraded to a phase 3 in 1986. In 1992, the ward became part of the new McMinnville Stake and a new branch (Burgess Falls) was split off. Today there are two wards (Burgess Falls became a ward in 1994) in Cookeville, Tennessee. They share this meetinghouse.
