Burlington

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Located on the Farmington River, Burlington is a place of natural beauty, with five mountains and valleys filled with brooks, forests, and stone walls. Most of the area's earliest settlers came from England to Hartford and then followed the river, with its fertile banks and meadowlands, into the West Woods or Great Forest, as Burlington was known at the time. The town was incorporated in 1745 and was named Burlington in 1806.

Burlington shows the faces of earlier generations of the same families who live in these hills and valleys today. It depicts the homes, barns, orchards, fields, schoolhouses, and mills when they were thriving with life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book captures the tenor of everyday situations as well as the drama of the Blizzard of 1888 and the flood of 1955.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738509051
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/06/2001
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Historian Jean M. Martin is the author of Images of America: Farmington. In Burlington, she interprets images from the Burlington Public Library and private collections, drawing on her knowledge of local history gained in serving with the Stanley-Whitman House, the Greater Hartford Area Historic Houses and Museums, and the Historic Sites of Connecticut's Farmington Valley. Her insight into and affection for Burlington's history are evident in this fascinating pictorial history.