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Burlington (City of Iowa the cago Rock)

a city of Iowa, the cago, Rock county-seat of Des Moines co.

Toledo, Peoria, and Western railroads. the Mississippi river, and on the Chi- It is on It is an important industrial city and has manufactures of crackers, pearl butock Island, and Pacific, and the tons, agricultural implements, boilers, engines, etc. The machine and repair shops of the Chicago, Quincy railroad are here. The city has Pop. (1910) 24,324; (1920) 24,057. go, Burlington, and an opera house, a court house, hospitals, a pu public library, and a handsome park. 57 entry in Burlington co., N. J., on the Delaware river and the Pennsylvania railroad; 18 miles N. E. of Philadelphia.

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