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Burlington is an unincorporated CDP in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,794 at the 2000 census. Burlington is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649. The community is situated between the villages of South Point and Chesapeake. Its other neighbor is Huntington, West Virginia, which lies across the Ohio River, with which it is connected via the West Huntington Bridge.

Burlington, Ohio was the first county seat in Lawrence County. The currently unincorporated area was originally settled by land purchased on behalf of 37 freed African-American Slaves in 1849 by James Twyman, a wealthy Virginia plantation owner. Upon his death Twyman freed all his slaves except the servants who he deemed too elderly to make the journey, and it was willed that they would be taken care of until their death. The book called The Promise Land by Earl Pratt, an Ohio lawyer from Ironton, Ohio, documented James Twymans plantation, the 37 freed slaves, and their journey to Ohio. A monument stands at the gates of the Burlington [Ohio] 37 Cemetery, where these formal slaves are buried. The Cemetery, Macedonia Church, and old Lawrence County Jail is listed on *The National Register of Historic Places.