![]() After several debates concerning where the shops would be located, Gen. ![]() With Alamance County's position along the new line, it became the logical choice for the shops' location. Not long after this historic opening, the railroad realized a pressing need for repair shops. When the iron horse arrived in Alamance County, locals referred to it as "the eighth wonder of the world". The next day, the first locomotive passed along the new route. On January 29, 1856, the last spikes were driven into the final tie of the North Carolina Railroad project, uniting the cities of Goldsboro and Charlotte by rail. The company selected a piece of land slightly west of present-day Graham. The need of the North Carolina Railroad in the 1850s to locate land where they could build, repair and do maintenance on its track was the genesis of Burlington, North Carolina. ![]() Early settlers included several groups of Quakers, many of which remain active in the Snow Camp area, German farmers, and Scots-Irish immigrants. ![]() The population was 57,303 at the 2020 census, which makes Burlington the 18th largest city in North Carolina.Īlamance County was created when Orange County was partitioned in 1849. It is the principal city of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Alamance County, in which most of the city is located, and is a part of the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Combined Statistical Area. Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. ![]()
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