The New Student's Reference Work/Burlington, N. J.

Bur′lington (bŭr′ling-ton), N. J., city and port of entry in the county of the same name, on the Delaware River, 19 miles northeast of Philadelphia and on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Here are situated Burlington College, and St. Mary's (P. E.) Hall for Girls, and the town has an opera house and a good public library, besides churches and schools. Its industries embrace iron pipe, stove and carriage works, harness and shoe-making establishments, also canned goods, besides berrying and market gardening. The city owns and operates its own water-works, its charter as a city dating from 1851, with revision in 1868. Population (1910), 8,336.