, Burlington County's Freeholders are:

Burlington is Lawrence County's largest center of consumer retail commerce, with many major retail outlets, such as Walmart, Sam's Club, K-Mart, and Lowe's.

, members of the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders ( with their term end dates and committee chairmanships listed in parentheses ) are Freeholder Director William Whelan ( 2011 ; Finance ), Deputy Freeholder Director James A. Dunkins ( 2011 ; Health ), Samuel L. Fiocchi, Sr. ( 2013 ; Public Works ), Jane Jannarone ( 2011 ; Public Affairs, Cultural & History ), Carl W. Kirstein ( 2013 ; Public Property & Personnel ) and Thomas Sheppard ( 2012 ; Agriculture ).

Burlington County is governed by a Board of Chosen Freeholders consisting of five members.

Freeholders are elected at large by the voters of Burlington County in partisan elections and serve staggered three-year terms.

The Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders created the Burlington County Bridge Commission on October 22, 1948, and simultaneously approved the purchase by the Commission of the Burlington-Bristol and Tacony-Palmyra Bridges from a private company.

The wording around the seal is " Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County, New Jersey ", the name of the county legislature.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

The Anglo-Korean Cultural Institute can be found on Burlington Road, and churches of several denominations in the area have regular Korean services with associated Korean clergy.

* ( Burlington House, Piccadilly, London ): Burlington's own contribution is likely to have been restricted to the former colonnade ( demolished 1868 ) In London, Burlington offered designs for features at several aristocratic free-standing dwellings, none of which have survived: Queensbury House in Burlington Gardens ( a gateway ); Warwick House, Warwick Street ( interiors ); Richmond House, Whitehall ( the main building );

In U. S. border communities such as Bellingham, Seattle, Buffalo, Detroit and Burlington, CBC radio and television stations can be received over-the-air and have a significant audience.

A moderate county in New Jersey politics, Burlington County in recent years has become an important area for the Republican Party, especially in more affluent communities that have developed new residential areas, such as Medford, Mount Laurel, Moorestown, and Evesham ( as opposed to areas along the Delaware River occupied by minority and working class households ).

He may also have printed Burlington Gate ( 1731 ), evoked by Alexander Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, and defending Lord Chandos, who is therein satirized.

For grades 9-12, public school students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown Borough attend Bordentown Regional High School as part of a sending / receiving relationship and also have the option of attending the Westampton campus of the Burlington County Institute of Technology.

The Burlington Royals, a rookie-level farm team of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals, have played in Burlington since 2006.

Many textile mills were established in Reidsville as well, with Cone Mills and Burlington Industries consolidating most of them in the mid-20th century, though most have now closed.

Burlington may also have been influenced in his choice of octagon from the drawings of the Renaissance architect Sebastiano Serlio ( 1475 – 1554 ), or from Roman buildings of antiquity ( for example, Lord Burlington owned Andrea Palladio's drawings of the octagonal mausoleum at Diocletian's Palace at Split in modern Croatia ).

However, positioned immediately before the large portrait of King Charles I and his family it provides further circumstantial evidence that Lord Burlington may have received an earlier secret Garter from the Stuart Kings in exile ( in this painting King Charles I can be seen wearing the blue sash of the Garter with a " Lesser " George attached ).

Lord Burlington would also have been aware of the Stuarts identification with Mercury through the theatre and masque set designs for the Stuart Court which were designed by Inigo Jones, the majority of which Lord Burlington owned.

The first architect of the gardens at Chiswick appears to have been the King's gardener, Charles Bridgeman ( 1690 – 1738 ), who was believed to have worked on the gardens with Lord Burlington around 1720, and subsequently with William Kent, whom Lord Burlington had brought back with him on his return from his second Grand Tour in 1719.

The Burlington County Bridge Commission is responsible for maintaining the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge and the Burlington-Bristol Bridge, both of which cross the Delaware River.

Allen County Community College offers classes at Burlington High School, both for adults and for high school students who may earn concurrent credits.

The River Line offers service to Camden and Trenton Rail Station, with stations at Burlington South and Burlington Towne Centre, both on West Broad Street.

The name " The Forks " is was used as a nickname for Burlington, both alluding to its heritage, as well as its geographic location at the confluence of the Des Lacs and Souris Rivers.

The city borders the township of Galloway in Atlantic County, and both Washington and Bass River Townships in Burlington County.

Bass River is the only municipality in Burlington County that hosts both U. S. Route 9 and the Garden State Parkway.

By 1906, the town boasted both its own newspaper — the Burlington Gazette — as well as a town library and a local rail line that connected Burlington to nearby Hamilton.

Following the Second World War, cheap electricity from nearby Niagara Falls and better transportation access due to the new ( 1939 ) Queen Elizabeth Way encouraged both light industry and families to move to Burlington.

A version with added Burlington was considered, including ceramic inserts in the various spaces, but rejected as it would push vehicle weight well over sixty metric tonnes, a weight then seen as prohibitive by both armies.

Jackson and his wife planned to return to their Burlington, Vermont home in a few days, and both had been taking automobile driving lessons while in San Francisco.

The territory of Charlestown originally included what is now Melrose and Malden ( both until 1649 ), Stoneham ( until 1725 ), Somerville ( until 1842 ), Medford, Everett, Woburn, Burlington, and parts of Arlington and Cambridge.

He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s.

The road both Harriman and Hill looked at was the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.

In 1868 the CB & Q completed bridges over the Mississippi River both at Burlington, Iowa, and Quincy, Illinois giving the railroad through connections with the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad ( B & MR ) in Iowa and the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad ( H & StJ ) in Missouri.

Two buildings on campus date prior to the 20th century – the Old School House ( built in the early 18th century in the Palladian style and reputedly designed by Lord Burlington ), and the cottage blocks ( both late 19th century ).

Later, this tower also served as a microwave tower for the Burlington Northern Railroad, the successor of both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, which occupied the second and third floors of the station, now deserted.

Because of his father's work, they " moved around a lot " and Gosling lived in both Cornwall, Ontario, and Burlington, Ontario .< ref >

( with one exception having been in Burlington, Vermont, where Myer's Bagels boasts both a Montreal-style wood oven and Lloyd Squires, a former St. Viateur Bagel Shop baker ).

Following this, she started associating with the surrealist group, and later participated in a number of surrealist exhibitions, including the London International Surrealist Exhibition ( New Burlington Gallery ) and Exposition surréaliste d ' Objets ( Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris ), both in 1936.

Access to the bay was important for the early water transportation and industrial development of the area, including Dundas, Ontario, which had an early but ultimately unrealized lead over both Burlington ( Brant's Block ) and Hamilton.

On completion of his studies in political science and international relations, he taught and held administrative offices in various universities: teaching assistant and research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1960 – 62 ); visiting lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ( summer 1962 ); assistant professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, ( fall 1962 ); lecturer / senior lecturer, University of Ibadan, where he became professor ( 1965 – 88 ), head of department ( 1965 – 72 ), and dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences ( 1966 – 68 ); Cadbury Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Birmingham Center for West African Studies, Birmingham, UK ( 1972 – 73 ); founding vice chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria ( 1975 – 79 ); visiting professor and head of department ; dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Development Studies ; and member of the Governing Council, all of the University of Cross River State, Uyo, Nigeria ( 1984 – 86 ).