This now uninhabited island with a lake in its middle was first settled in the early 1600s. In the first decades of the twentieth century it had an amusement park, the carousel of which is now in Seaside Heights, NJ.
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Delaware River between Bristol, PA, and Burlington, NJ , Burlington Island, Burlington, New Jersey, 08016, United States
Name : plaquemaster Email : sjkc0072@aol.com Comments : Developers want to recreate a 17th-century Lenni Lenape fort, village, and trading post on uninhabited Burlington Island, reports the Phila. Inquirer, 1/16/12, at p. B1. Date : 2012-01-17
Name : plaquemaster Email : sjkc0072@aol.com Comments : The Philadelphia Inquirer of 1/24/12, at p. A2, had a good history of the island. It had been claimed by several countries through the years and its history is fascinating. Date : 2012-01-25
Name : Marker Writer Email : sjkc0072@aol.com Comments : The island is being cleaned up for recreational and educational use. See the Philadelphia Inquirer, Apr. 29, 2019, at pp. B1, 7.
Date : 2019-04-30
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Email : sjkc0072@aol.com
Comments : Developers want to recreate a 17th-century Lenni Lenape fort, village, and trading post on uninhabited Burlington Island, reports the Phila. Inquirer, 1/16/12, at p. B1.
Date : 2012-01-17
Email : sjkc0072@aol.com
Comments : The Philadelphia Inquirer of 1/24/12, at p. A2, had a good history of the island. It had been claimed by several countries through the years and its history is fascinating.
Date : 2012-01-25
Email : sjkc0072@aol.com
Comments : The island is being cleaned up for recreational and educational use. See the Philadelphia Inquirer, Apr. 29, 2019, at pp. B1, 7.
Date : 2019-04-30