Burlington was laid out in 1832 by David Stipp, an employee of the United States General Land Office in Crawfordsville, Indiana, about a year after settlers first appeared in the area. Stipp donated land for the town's first school house. The town was incorporated in 1967. It is named for Wyandot Chief Burlington. In 1830, work began on the Michigan Road which passed directly through the center of town. The road, which became Indiana's first superhighway, connected Madison, Indiana and Michigan City, Indiana turning the town into a major thoroughfare.
Passages that mention Burlington, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The history of Burlington, New Jersey, from the early European arrivals in the Delaware to the quarter millennial anniversary, in 1927, of the settlement by English Quakers in 16771927 · page 310Read the page →
Read the text
Pearl Streets, was built by David Mitchell for a wholesale shoe factory, the first of its kind of any consequence in Burlington. About the year 1832 Aaron Hutchins, a New Yorker, came to Burlington and established himself in the business, and about 1835 William Garwood, a native of Burlington, began to manufacture. 1 When the railroad was completed in 1836 great changes began to come in Burlington. New life was put into every-
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
The history of Burlington, New Jersey, from the early European arrivals in the Delaware to the quarter millennial anniversary, in 1927, of the settlement by English Quakers in 16771927 · page 323Read the page →
Read the text
The board also wanted assurance that the phraseology of the Act of 1682, giving the island ‘“‘to and for the use of the town of Burlington and to others concerned therein, within the first and second tenths,’ might not be construed as including other schools in the territory adjacent to the town of Burlington. A committee was appointed to make an inspection of the law. An explanation of the meaning of the designation, “‘tenth,”’ is required here. When the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
