Burlington, Wisconsin This article is about the City of Burlington, Wisconsin.
City of Burlington Location of Burlington inside Wisconsin Location of Burlington inside Wisconsin Named for Burlington, Vermont Burlington is a town/city in Racine and Walworth counties in the U.S.
State of Wisconsin, with the majority of the town/city located in Racine County. The populace of the portion of the town/city inside Racine County was 10,464 as of the 2010 census.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the area, Native American mounds were constructed near the present locale of Burlington.
The earliest definite European existence in what is now Burlington was in the fall of 1799, when a group of French explorers and missionaries led by Francis Morgan de Vereceones made a overland from the Root River to the Fox River, reaching the Fox at roughly Burlington's present location. The first European pioneer in Burlington were Moses Smith (the son of a Revolutionary War veteran) and William Whiting. Smith and Whiting had been in the region previously, making a so-called "jackknife claim" to the territory (carving their names and the date on trees in the vicinity) on December 15, 1835. The men then left the encampment and returned with Lemuel Smith (Moses' brother) as well as Benjamin Perce, another member of the group.
The four men searched for arable territory and assembled a cabin on the east side of the Fox River (on what is now Wehmhoff-Jucker Park.) Other pioneer appeared in the spring and summer of 1836, mostly from New England; they titled their settlement Foxville. That year, the inhabitants of Foxville unanimously decided to change their settlement's name to "Burlington" after the town/city Burlington, Vermont; the Foxville name continued to be used, however, until that name was officially changed on July 15, 1839. On July 3, 1836, however, an act of Congress organizing the Wisconsin Territory went into effect, and Foxville fell inside the borders of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Territory, which at that time encompassed the present-day county of Racine.
Burlington was a primary New England settlement.
The initial founders of Burlington consisted entirely of pioneer from New England, and inherited "Yankee" culture, that is, they were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s. They were part of a wave of New England farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory amid the early 1800s.
Burlington, like much of Wisconsin, would be culturally similar to early New England for most of its early history. From 1844 to 1850, the town of Voree, just to the west of Burlington, was the command posts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), one of many sects established during the LDS succession crisis following the death of Latter Day Saint boss founder Joseph Smith.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.73 square miles (20.02 km2), of which, 7.50 square miles (19.42 km2) is territory and 0.23 square miles (0.60 km2) is water. Climate data for Burlington, Wisconsin In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Burlington Brewing Company Burlington has a mayor-council form of government, with a town/city administrator. The mayor is the city's chief executive, responsible for seeing that state law and town/city ordinances are enforced. Mayors are voted for to two-year terms; the current mayor is Jeannie Hefty. The Common Council is composed of eight aldermen, two in each of Burlington's four districts. In every year's spring election, one alderman is voted for from each district.
As of 2004, the Burlington Police Department working 32 full-time personnel; the Fire Department working four full-time personnel and 50 volunteer firefighters. The first school classes in Burlington were taught in 1838.
The settlement's first schoolhouse was assembled in 1839, and classes were taught there irregularly for the next 15 years. An act of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1857 incorporated the Burlington Union School District of Racine County.
In 1858 and 1859, a schoolhouse was assembled for the district's use. Now called Lincoln School (Burlington, Wisconsin), the building is now used as the command posts for the Burlington Area School District.
Burlington is now served by the Burlington Area School District. The precinct has eight schools, six in Burlington. A ground of the Gateway Technical College is also in Burlington. Burlington's first private school, the Burlington Academy, was established in 1844 as a result of dissatisfaction with the other schools operating at the time.
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Burlington is nicknamed "Chocolate City, U.S.A.", because of the Nestle chocolate factory assembled there in 1966.
Since 1929, Burlington has also been the home of the Burlington Liars' Club.
The Malt House Theater, the building being the former home of the Finke-Uhen Brewery, is positioned along the Fox River inside the town/city of Burlington, and the theater is home to the improve theater business Haylofters, Inc.
Burlington Little League was titled 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. Home of the Burlington Barons, a semi-pro baseball team that is part of the Land O'Lakes League Southwest Division.
The first journal in the Burlington region was the Voree Herald, presented in Voree in January 1846 by James Strang, the prestige of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite).
The first journal presented in Burlington intended for a general audience was the Weekly Burlington Gazette, first presented on April 8, 1858.
From 1860 until 1863, no journal was presented in Burlington. On October 14, 1863, the Burlington Standard, another Republican newspaper, was founded. In 1881, the paper became largely nonpartisan, but in April 1886, with a new owner, the paper was retitled the Standard Democrat and became firmly pro-Democrat. From 1896 to 1911, the Standard Democrat was also presented in German under the name Der Standard Demokrat. The Burlington Democrat, a journal with Democratic leanings, was first presented in 1880 as a counter to the Republican Burlington Standard.
Its name was soon changed to the Burlington Free Press, and its leanings changed to Republican at about the same time the Standard became the Standard Democrat. The weekly Burlington Standard Press is presently presented in Burlington; the everyday Racine Journal-Times, Kenosha News, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are also available in the area.
WBSD (89.1 FM - https://wbsdfm.com/) is a high school airways broadcast licensed to serve Burlington, Wisconsin, US.
The station is owned by the Burlington Area School District and directed by the staff and pupils of Burlington High School.
In addition to its usual music programming, WBSD airs live play-by-play broadcasts of Burlington High School sporting affairs.
WIS 50.svg WIS 50 is nine miles south of the city.
WIS 164.svg WIS 164 is eight miles northeast of the city.
WIS County A.svg Racine County Highway A WIS County E.svg Racine County Highway E WIS County FF.svg Racine County Highway FF WIS County J.svg Racine County Highway J WIS County P.svg Racine County Highway P WIS County W.svg Racine County Highway W The first barns to pass through Burlington was assembled in 1855 by the Racine, Janesville and Mississippi Railroad Company.
In 1856, Burlington invested in the Fox River Valley Railroad of Wisconsin, a prepared barns that would have started in Milwaukee, connected to the barns already in Burlington, and continued on to the Fox River Valley Railroad of Illinois.
The barns presently operating through Burlington was constructed in 1885-1886 by the Wisconsin Central Railroad.
The Milwaukee Road directed its last train west of Burlington in 1982.
In 1985 the Soo Line purchased what remained of the Milwaukee Road, and reorganized their existing line through Burlington as a part of a new subsidiary known as Lakes States Transportation Division in 1986.
Lakes States did not achieve the cost savings that the Soo Line had envisioned and was sold to the new Wisconsin Central Transportation, which commenced operations on October 11, 1987.
The Canadian National Railway remains the operator of the rail line through Burlington.
Burlington Municipal Airport (KBUU) serves Burlington and encircling communities. Tony Romo, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, visited Burlington High School Robin Vos, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and 75th Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Burlington History Museum "Subcounty populace estimates: Wisconsin 2000-2008" (CSV).
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