Around Burlington:
Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye It was a link to the town’s earliest history – a brick and mortar reminder that civilization finally arrived in Burlington. It was the town’s first jail and a testament that law and order – of a sort – finally was here to stay. It was 1838, and the red brick building taking shape in today’s North Hill Park was an object of some community pride. That dedicated building was considered a great step in forwarding community gentrification and it was greatly patronized because Burlington during the mid-19th Century produced a bumper crop of ner-do-wells req...
Source: thehawkeye.com