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Volume 1
The Wymans: Burlington’s First Family
Ken Brown Made the Credit Union Go
Glorious 4th of the Past
Welcome Home Jubilee
Johnson’s Grove
Center School Had a Stormy Start
We’ve Come a Long Way, Arthur Nichols
The Burlingtonians (Sports)
Long Before the Winns, the Wymans
The Village Smithy
Three Notable Women
Many Here Lived High off the Hog
Burlington’s Birth of a Farmers’ Fair
The Poor Farm and Gerry Seminatore
1939: The First BHS Football Squad
Burlingtonians in the Gold Rush
Slavery Did Exist in Early Burlington
A Well-Heeled Burlington Industry
Black Tuesday (Great Depression)
1811: Middlesex Turnpike Opens for Business
Automobiles, Gas Stations and Other Things
Lest We Forget Residents Who Fought in the Wars
Brief Stay for “Key” Makers
Notes on the Family Johnson
First Mills, Now Malls
Timothy Winn: Burlington’s Founding Father
Christmas in Simpler Days
Push Forward Through All
In the Beginning
And You Think Town Meeting is Hectic Now?
Old Homes Still Standing
200 Years of tighingman
“Few will recognize Havenville”
“That sort of thing” does, and has, happened here
The Grahams of Lexington St.
Mount Playnum, Snake Hole, Up Street?
Since 1629: The Durable Skeltons
The Storming of a Fortress
The Village Store
There was a Tavern in the Town
The Year Without Summer
Barns
April 19th, 1775
Sharing History with Woburn
The Family Simonds
The Public Library
The Early Schools
250th Birthday for Local Church
The Eminent Sewalls
Of Pomp, Circumstance, and Loaded Pistols
Happy Birthday Northern Neighbor
Remember Arthur?
Volume 2
45 Years Ago
The Family Marion
100,000 Violets
Horses in Burlington
Brellington, Burlington, Bridlington ?
The Converse Place: A House Full of History
A General, a President, a Hero
This Proposal Never Left the Starting Gate
Burlington’s Flying Hero
Momento Mori
A Family of Veterans
The Nevers Story
Tally Ho !
The Count Rumford Saga
Ye Olde MBTA
The Deacon Foster Place
Call me Ishmael
Remember the Wards?
1790 House Ties
Burlington’s Carters
The McIntire Clan
In Memory of Mary Elizabeth
A New England Thanksgiving
Just a Country Parson
Hot Time in the Old Town
The last French War
The Kimballs, Bells & Fosters
Those Who Affected Eternity
The Jewel of the Cutlers, Walkers and Kerrigans
A Library as a Gift
The Town Hall Saga
A Fine Early Home
The Frothingham Mansion
Our Three Presidents
Town’s Oldest Tavern
The Walker Home and Farm
Hamming It Up for 63 Years
A Common Story
As Old Roads Will
Two of Burlington’s Finest
Vince aut Morire
Another Fine Old Home
The Old Time Militia
The Winn House
The Show Goes On
Woods Corner? Cumstonville?
Once Proud, Now Pathetic
The Kendall Place
Their Deeds Will be Remembered
Off to School and Out of Town
Farmers and Tanners
Tapping the Supply
Volume 3
If This House Could Talk
Shrouded in Mystery
History of the Union
Burlington’s Carters
Charles Casassa – He founded Historical Society
Of Thompson, Trull, Tibbets and Getchel
Birth of the Marion Tavern
The Murphys
When Firefighting Was Volunteer Work
The Crawford Farm
History of Skiltons and Skeltons
The Family Bennett
Shedd-ing Some Light on this Old Home
Two Long-Time Superintendents
Scouting Through the Years
Burlington Had Role in the Longfellow Poem
Where Did These Stone Walls Come From?
The Locke Farms
The Warren Academy
The Old Parsonage
A Boy Named Nahum
Two of the Best
Fulling Mills
The Will of Marshall Simonds
George Reed – Town’s Forgotten Hero
Another School Issue
150 Years of the Nichols Family
Pleasant Reading
A Long Line of Blanchards
The Massachusetts Indian
Isaiah Thomas and his Almanac
A Short-Lived Club
The Beginnings of a Church
Grange Tradition in Burlington
A Typical Farmer
In Fine Spirits
The Middlesex Canal
Where Farms Once Stood
Delivery Days
The Family Pollock
Constable of the Community
A Long Line of Reeds
Ye Olde Meeting House
Privateering
Pimentel’s Shop
Mountain Road’s McNamaras
The Shows Must Go On
The Local Art Scene
The Last Big Farm
Kudos for Curtin
The Busing Bustead
The Symmes Saga
Volume 4
The India Rubber Man (Charles Goodyear)
Chicken Farms for “Chicken Feed”
The Old Meeting House
A Long Line of Turnbulls
A View from Bennett Hill
Riding the Rails
Wymans Flock to Town
Burlington’s Boys of Summer
An Apple a Day
A Step Back in Time
Fowle Family Saga
Simonds Aplenty
A View from Bennett Hill
The Good Reverend
Thompson Clan’s Long, Distinguished History
“Wait a Minute”
How About a Ghost Story?
Burlington’s Butters
Orray Skelton, Gentlemam
Skunk Anyone?
Veterans Remembered
Selwyn Graham
Subject to Change
The Village Smithy
Shining Once Again
House by the Side of the Road
At Christmas Time
Hoop History Here
The Achievements of Gen. Small
10 Centuries of Howards
Town’s Worst Fire
When Leather Was King
Good Cheer, Good Flip and Toddy in Woburn
The History of a Museum
A Walk Down Main Street
Nellie Sewall, Burlington’s Leading Lady
A Tribute to Gove Sleeper
Six Sisters
There’s Copper in that here Hill? Hope.
A Little Masonic History
Burlington’s First Parsonage
208 Years Ago
It’s Show Time
Wood’s America
Carter Country
Boomtown
Two Prominent Skeltons
The Colonial Spinster
Remember Woburn High?
Burlington Catholics
On the Post Road
The Rogan House
Open Menu Overlay
Burlington Retro
The Website that Forgets to Forget
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Home
About
Burlington Turns 50
Town photos
0–1955
1955–60
1960–65
1965–70
1970–75
1975–80
1980–85
1985–90
1990–now
School photos
Pre-K to elementary
MSMS yearbooks
High school 1940s
High school 1950s
High school 1960s
High school 1970s
High school 1980s
High school 1990s
High school 2000s
High school 2011 +
Fogelberg Files
Volume 1
The Wymans: Burlington’s First Family
Ken Brown Made the Credit Union Go
Glorious 4th of the Past
Welcome Home Jubilee
Johnson’s Grove
Center School Had a Stormy Start
We’ve Come a Long Way, Arthur Nichols
The Burlingtonians (Sports)
Long Before the Winns, the Wymans
The Village Smithy
Three Notable Women
Many Here Lived High off the Hog
Burlington’s Birth of a Farmers’ Fair
The Poor Farm and Gerry Seminatore
1939: The First BHS Football Squad
Burlingtonians in the Gold Rush
Slavery Did Exist in Early Burlington
A Well-Heeled Burlington Industry
Black Tuesday (Great Depression)
1811: Middlesex Turnpike Opens for Business
Automobiles, Gas Stations and Other Things
Lest We Forget Residents Who Fought in the Wars
Brief Stay for “Key” Makers
Notes on the Family Johnson
First Mills, Now Malls
Timothy Winn: Burlington’s Founding Father
Christmas in Simpler Days
Push Forward Through All
In the Beginning
And You Think Town Meeting is Hectic Now?
Old Homes Still Standing
200 Years of tighingman
“Few will recognize Havenville”
“That sort of thing” does, and has, happened here
The Grahams of Lexington St.
Mount Playnum, Snake Hole, Up Street?
Since 1629: The Durable Skeltons
The Storming of a Fortress
The Village Store
There was a Tavern in the Town
The Year Without Summer
Barns
April 19th, 1775
Sharing History with Woburn
The Family Simonds
The Public Library
The Early Schools
250th Birthday for Local Church
The Eminent Sewalls
Of Pomp, Circumstance, and Loaded Pistols
Happy Birthday Northern Neighbor
Remember Arthur?
Volume 2
45 Years Ago
The Family Marion
100,000 Violets
Horses in Burlington
Brellington, Burlington, Bridlington ?
The Converse Place: A House Full of History
A General, a President, a Hero
This Proposal Never Left the Starting Gate
Burlington’s Flying Hero
Momento Mori
A Family of Veterans
The Nevers Story
Tally Ho !
The Count Rumford Saga
Ye Olde MBTA
The Deacon Foster Place
Call me Ishmael
Remember the Wards?
1790 House Ties
Burlington’s Carters
The McIntire Clan
In Memory of Mary Elizabeth
A New England Thanksgiving
Just a Country Parson
Hot Time in the Old Town
The last French War
The Kimballs, Bells & Fosters
Those Who Affected Eternity
The Jewel of the Cutlers, Walkers and Kerrigans
A Library as a Gift
The Town Hall Saga
A Fine Early Home
The Frothingham Mansion
Our Three Presidents
Town’s Oldest Tavern
The Walker Home and Farm
Hamming It Up for 63 Years
A Common Story
As Old Roads Will
Two of Burlington’s Finest
Vince aut Morire
Another Fine Old Home
The Old Time Militia
The Winn House
The Show Goes On
Woods Corner? Cumstonville?
Once Proud, Now Pathetic
The Kendall Place
Their Deeds Will be Remembered
Off to School and Out of Town
Farmers and Tanners
Tapping the Supply
Volume 3
If This House Could Talk
Shrouded in Mystery
History of the Union
Burlington’s Carters
Charles Casassa – He founded Historical Society
Of Thompson, Trull, Tibbets and Getchel
Birth of the Marion Tavern
The Murphys
When Firefighting Was Volunteer Work
The Crawford Farm
History of Skiltons and Skeltons
The Family Bennett
Shedd-ing Some Light on this Old Home
Two Long-Time Superintendents
Scouting Through the Years
Burlington Had Role in the Longfellow Poem
Where Did These Stone Walls Come From?
The Locke Farms
The Warren Academy
The Old Parsonage
A Boy Named Nahum
Two of the Best
Fulling Mills
The Will of Marshall Simonds
George Reed – Town’s Forgotten Hero
Another School Issue
150 Years of the Nichols Family
Pleasant Reading
A Long Line of Blanchards
The Massachusetts Indian
Isaiah Thomas and his Almanac
A Short-Lived Club
The Beginnings of a Church
Grange Tradition in Burlington
A Typical Farmer
In Fine Spirits
The Middlesex Canal
Where Farms Once Stood
Delivery Days
The Family Pollock
Constable of the Community
A Long Line of Reeds
Ye Olde Meeting House
Privateering
Pimentel’s Shop
Mountain Road’s McNamaras
The Shows Must Go On
The Local Art Scene
The Last Big Farm
Kudos for Curtin
The Busing Bustead
The Symmes Saga
Volume 4
The India Rubber Man (Charles Goodyear)
Chicken Farms for “Chicken Feed”
The Old Meeting House
A Long Line of Turnbulls
A View from Bennett Hill
Riding the Rails
Wymans Flock to Town
Burlington’s Boys of Summer
An Apple a Day
A Step Back in Time
Fowle Family Saga
Simonds Aplenty
A View from Bennett Hill
The Good Reverend
Thompson Clan’s Long, Distinguished History
“Wait a Minute”
How About a Ghost Story?
Burlington’s Butters
Orray Skelton, Gentlemam
Skunk Anyone?
Veterans Remembered
Selwyn Graham
Subject to Change
The Village Smithy
Shining Once Again
House by the Side of the Road
At Christmas Time
Hoop History Here
The Achievements of Gen. Small
10 Centuries of Howards
Town’s Worst Fire
When Leather Was King
Good Cheer, Good Flip and Toddy in Woburn
The History of a Museum
A Walk Down Main Street
Nellie Sewall, Burlington’s Leading Lady
A Tribute to Gove Sleeper
Six Sisters
There’s Copper in that here Hill? Hope.
A Little Masonic History
Burlington’s First Parsonage
208 Years Ago
It’s Show Time
Wood’s America
Carter Country
Boomtown
Two Prominent Skeltons
The Colonial Spinster
Remember Woburn High?
Burlington Catholics
On the Post Road
The Rogan House
Burlington Retro
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