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Black plaque № 46889

Black plaque № 46889

From Craig's Camp to Burlington. From Craig's Camp...- In June 1799, Boone County’s first court set Craig’s Camp as county seat. The next year, John H. Craig and Robert Johnson donated 74 acres at the Woolper Creek site for a town they called Wilmington. Court held here in a log courthouse in Jan. 1

801 and town was platted that Sept. The streets originally circled central “Publick Square”, but later 2 roads cut through it. (Reverse) ...to Burlington- Town renamed Burlington in 1816 at the reques

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