Burlington, Massachusetts

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Burlington
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Location in Massachusetts
Burlington, Massachusetts
Burlington
Burlington
Basic data
Foundation : 1640
State : United States
State : Massachusetts
County : Middlesex County
Coordinates : 42 ° 30 ′  N , 71 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 30 ′  N , 71 ° 12 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 24,498 (as of 2007)
Population density : 795.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 30.8 km 2  (approx. 12 mi 2 )
Height : 66 m
Postcodes : 01803, 10805
Area code : +1 339/781
FIPS : 25-09840
GNIS ID : 0618219
Website : www.burlington.org

Burlington is a small town in Middlesex County in northeast Massachusetts .

The earliest settlement of Burlington dates back to 1641. The Francis Wyman House, whose construction dates back to 1666, still dates from this time. On February 28, 1799, Burlington was officially confirmed.

Between 1955 and 1965, the city boomed with the construction of Massachusetts Route 128 . The number of inhabitants, which was less than 4,000 before construction, quintupled by 1970.

Today there are offices of well-known IT companies such as Oracle , SAP , SunGard , Avid and Nuance as well as a development center of Sun Microsystems in Burlington .

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