BURLINGTON, an industrial city of Alamance county, North Carolina, U.S.A., on the southern railway, about 55m. N.W. of Raleigh. The population in 1930 was 9,737. It has cotton-mills making 1,000,000 yards of cloth per week; hosiery mills with a weekly output of over 75,000 pairs; dyeing plants, furniture factories, and several other industries. The jobbing business in hosiery amounts to from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year. The assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $10,000,000. Burlington was founded in 1866, to be the headquarters of the North Carolina railroad, and was called Company Shops until in 1887 it was incorporated as Burlington. Elon college, a co educational institution of the Southern Christian Church, char tered in 188q, is three miles west.