Editing Burlington, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Boone County Courthouse, Burlington, KY - 50215587953.jpg|thumb|Boone County Courthouse, located in Historic Burlington district]]
Burlington was incorporated in 1824.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IuGCoLRCN-kC&pg=PA263 | title=The WPA Guide to Kentucky | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1996 | access-date=24 November 2013 | author=Federal Writers' Project | pages=263| isbn=0813108659 }}</ref> However, today Burlington is unincorporated due to the annulment of the city charter in 1923. It is one of the two county seats in Kentucky that are unincorporated.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitsoff |first=Tom |date=July 15, 2006 |title=BURLINGTON\ WHERE BOONE COUNTY'S PAST AND FUTURE MEET |pages=A1 |work=Kentucky Post |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A148314511/STND?u=albu78484&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=26df28b1 |access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>

The county seat of Boone County, Burlington, was initially established on 74 acres, donated by John Craig and Robert Johnson, at the headwaters of the Allen's Fork. It went through various name changes, originally known as Craig's Camp after John Craig, then renamed Wilmington in 1800, and is now known as Burlington, a function of the request of the U.S. Post Office in 1816. Court was initially held in a log courthouse built in 1801, the same year the town was platted. In the initial layout of the town, the streets circled the central "Publick Square."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Robin |title=From Craig's Camp to Burlington |url=https://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/678 |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=ExploreKYHistory}}</ref> It was this original town plan and square, designed by county surveyor Moses Scott, that would later contribute to the listing of Burlington as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tenkotte |first1=Paul |title=The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky |last2=Claypool |first2=James |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |year=2009 |isbn=9780813125657 |pages=134}}</ref> The Burlington Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gibbs |first=Kenneth |date=1979 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/f462a6d5-3464-4265-90e7-625e0ce4bcbb |access-date=February 19, 2023 |website=NPS National Register Digital Assets}}</ref>