Burlington, 1917
Burlington, 1981
(a larger than usual image)
Looking West from the East side of Burlington
Looking N on Jefferson toward Torrid
Burlington, from Caldwell Hill, c. 1950
Burlington, c. 1980
Union Street at the Corner of N. Jefferson
Looking West in the center of Burlington
Burlington, circa 1910
looking south on Jefferson
Burlington in the Snow, c 1900
The T. B. Rouse Homestead
on Conrad Lane, near Derby Farms
The Boone County Fair, circa 1915
The Hanging Tree
This tree was at the NW corner of what you likely
know as the intersection of 18 and Camp Ernst / North Bend Road
There's an older image of the tree on the John Uri Lloyd pages,
here.
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Burlington was founded in 1799 as Craig's Camp, named for one of the owners of the land. The name was changed to Wilmington in 1800 and finally to Burlington, probably in 1816. We know Burlington was incorporated in 1824. A Boone Court House post office operated from 1807 to 1820 but Burlington doesn't establish a PO until 1829. |
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"On the night of the 18th inst. fourteen slaves ran away from Burlington, Ky. They belonged to the following individuals: Ten to Ephraim Porter, two to J. G. Hamilton, one to Dr. J. F. Grubbs, and one to C. L. Stanford." from the Louisville Journal, September 25, 1852. |
Woolper Creek, and the origin of its name. Here.
M. Gabriel hung - legally - in 1849. Story here.
Accounts of the lynching of Smith Williams, 1876, here, here, and here.
Louis
Laferdette is described as “the tramp who attacked farmer William
Whitlock of North Bend.” He was lynched for it. You can read the full
story here.
The trial of Peter Blimm, who was almost lynched in 1870, here.
This is a map of early Burlington buildings.
The key to the places on the map is here.
to Miss Eva Akins, Burlington, July 9, 1904
The three gents are unidentified
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The Blythe House, near Burlington. |
Judge George Gilpin Perkins
left,
Dr. W. O. Rouse Home, 1903
center, Attorney S Gaines Home, 1903
right, J. C. Revill's Home, 1903
left, Burlington Baseball Team
right. Burlington Basketball Team, 1930-1931
There's a profusely illustrated history book on Burlington, in
the Arcadia "Images of America" Series. You can buy it
from Amazon at the link below:
