From Craig's Camp / To Burlington

From Craig's Camp / To Burlington (HM2GBR)

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N 39° 1.673', W 84° 43.446'

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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. 1801 and town was platted that Sept. The streets originally circled central "Publick Square" but later 2 roads cut through it.

Town renamed Burlington in 1816 at the request of the U.S. Post Office. Burlington was incorporated at one time. It survived calls to move the county seat to a different town and remains one of two unincorporated county seats in Ky. It has always been the center for courts, county clerk, and jail in Boone County.
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HM NumberHM2GBR
Series This marker is part of the Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society series
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Year Placed2014
Placed ByKentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Department of Transportation, Boone County Historical Society
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 at 2:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 697007 N 4322335
Decimal Degrees39.02788333, -84.72410000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 1.673', W 84° 43.446'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 1' 40.38" N, 84° 43' 26.76" W
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