Scotts Run tumbles into the Potomac about a mile and a half west of the American Legion Memorial Bridge. The stream passes through a forest of hemlock, beech, maple and ferns. It was that patch of nature that Elizabeth Miles Cooke wanted to preserve for future generations.
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Betty Cooke died in May 1999 at the age of 91. Later that month, residents of Georgetown Pike approached the Fairfax County supervisors and urged that the bridge over Scotts Run not far from her home -- and not far from the wilderness she had saved -- be named after her.