Further Historical Reading
History abounds in Burlington! And thanks Leonard Alderman, our Town Historian, along with many others, we are able to bring you a growing resource of information that you can use to get even more familiar with our fair town.
- A letter about the Blizzard of 1888 - Submitted by Leonard Alderman via Arthur Bauer
- Burlington Center Gets Electricity, August 1924 - Submitted by Leonard Alderman
- Connecticut History Online
- Burlington's Articles of the Past - by Leonard Alderman
- Cemetaries
- Genealogy - via Local History - The Burlington Room
- Burlington Obituaries - by Leonard Alderman
- New Burlington Genealogy website (part of US GenWeb)
More Historical Trivia...
- Burlington Men in the Civil War - by Thomas Turick
- The Tavern Building - by Thomas Turick
- Peculiar Runaway Accident, New Hartford, May 25, 1917 - Submitted by Leonard Alderman
- Jonathan Miller's Dedication Sermon (given on Jan 7, 1809) - Submitted by Leonard Alderman
- Some Reminiscences of a Long Life - by John Hooker 1899 - Submitted by Jan Tanner
- Brown-Elton Tavern - by the Historical Society
- The Cotton Mill - by Leonard Alderman
- The Old Center School House
- The American Chestnut Tree
- Letters from a Boarding School, Dec 1851
- History of Nepaug Reservoir
- Some Historical Newspaper Clippings (early 1900's)
- Founded on Legends of Whigville in Burlington - by Milo Leon Norton in 1897
- English Customary Weight and Measures