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Burlington is a city in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States. The population was 26,839 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Des Moines County. Burlington is the center of a small metropolitan area including West Burlington and Middletown, Iowa and Gulfport, Illinois. Burlington is the home of Snake Alley, the crookedest alley in the world, and has been called the Backhoe Capital of the World. Burlington is also home to a campus of Southeastern Community College.

Points of interest:
Snake AlleyCrapo Park - a city park with arboretum and botanical garden, located alongside the Mississippi River at Parkway Drive, Burlington, Iowa. Those who are not familiar with the park often mispronounce it as "Crap-O" Park while the correct pronunciation is Cray-po Park. It is reputed to be the site where the American flag was first raised on Iowa's soil, by Zebulon Pike in 1805.

Snake Alley - was constructed in 1894 as an experimental street design. The original intention of Snake Alley was to serve as a direct link between the downtown business district and the neighborhood shopping area located on North Sixth Street. Three German immigrants conceived and carried out the idea of a winding hillside street, similar to vineyard paths in France and Germany.

The alley is composed of limestone and blueclay bricks. The constantly changing slant from one curve to the next necessitated a complicated construction technique to keep the high grade to the outside. Snake Alley consists of five half-curves and two quarter-curves over a distance of 275 feet, rising 58.3 feet from Washington Street to Columbia.

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