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The Burlington Downtown Historic District is a 15 acres (6.1 ha) historic district located in Burlington, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] It includes 80 contributing buildings and 17 non-contributing ones, as well as a non-contributing site. Included are:
Many of the homes in the district belonged to Burlington's most influential residents, including merchant Ephraim Perkins, the Meinhardt banking family, and Louis H. Rohr, owner of the Wisconsin Condensed Milk Company. The district includes examples of most of the popular American architectural styles of the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Robert Emmett "Bobby" Lynch (July 30, 1878 [1] – May 1, 1959) was an American baseball player and manager, salesman, and Democratic politician from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He represented Green Bay for ten terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly , serving from 1933 to 1937, and then from 1943 to 1959.
Burlington Little League was named District 6 champions and state champions at the Majors level in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015.In 2006, the semi-pro football team, the Burlington Blue Devils, was established. [37] The city is the home of the Burlington Barons, a semi-pro baseball team that is part of the Land O'Lakes League Southwest Division.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
The Town of Burlington is located in Racine County, Wisconsin. The population was 6,465 at the 2020 census. The population was 6,465 at the 2020 census. The City of Burlington is located mostly within the town.
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