Was the first seat of government after the formation of the Territory of Iowa. The number of inhabitants between 3,000 and 3,500. A great many handsome residences on the more elevated parts of the bluff. Houses are good, generally taste, brick dwellings. beautifully elevated, situated on the west side of the Mississippi River, a place of very considerable business. This town originally called Flint Hill- the Indian name was Shoquokon, Flint or Rock Hill. William Williams visited Burlington, writing a brief description in his journal: A historical marker commemorates the site of the church and early territorial government. The government used "Old Zion," the first Methodist Church in Iowa (located near what is now Third and Washington streets), to conduct its business. The Iowa Territory was organized in the following year, and Burlington was named as its first territorial capital. In 1837, Burlington was designated the second territorial capital of the Wisconsin Territory. The Grays' daughter Abigail was born in Burlington that same year, the first European-descended American settler child born on Iowa soil. Gray chose to name it Burlington in honor of his hometown in Vermont. In the spring of 1834 they allowed John Gray, who purchased the first lot with his wife Eliza Jane, to rename the town for $50. In November and December, he surveyed the settlement for White and Doolittle. Ross joined them and established a general store. Andreas called White and Doolittle the Romulus and Remus of their settlement, referring to the mythic heroes who founded Rome, a city surrounded by hills. Andreas wrote in 1875, White erected a cabin in the area later platted to be Front Street between Court and High streets. McCarver crossed the Mississippi River from Big Island and staked claims there. Settlement began in 1833, shortly after the Black Hawk Purchase, when Samuel (aka Simpson) White, Amzi Doolitle, and Morton M. The American Fur Company of John Jacob Astor established a post in the area in 1829.
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