From Craig's Camp to Burlington
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From Craig's Camp...- 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.
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...to Burlington- 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.
Dedicated June 8, 2014.
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