Lt. Colonel G.T. Totten to make a recommendation as to how to dispose of the once bustling Burlington Cantonment. Their recommendation was to sell the property, a hundred acre wood lot to the north being the key selling point. Memorial Tablet Cemetery marker T oday, beautiful Battery Park stands as a testimony to the military encampment that once was here. Directly opposite the park, Monroe Street is still named after the President in the White House at the time. Aging homes now fill the area where the barracks stood.
Children play in the swings and slides where the parade ground was located.
Many of the city streets are named for prominent military men who served at the garrison. To find mention of the soldiers who suffered and died here, one must go further down North Avenue to Lake View Cemetery. Here amidst several dozen tiny headstones, each graced with a small American flag, one will find a memorial to Burlington's Unknown. Doubtless, many of these unknown are the soldiers who did not survive the winter of the War of 1812. 3 Campbell 146, 147.