Burke County

Burke County is the name of three counties in the United States:

  • Burke County, Georgia
  • Burke County, North Carolina
  • Burke County, North Dakota

Famous quotes containing the words burke and/or county:

    To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
    —Billie Burke (1885–1970)

    Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven and eight thousand majority! How people do hate Catholics, and what a happiness it was to show it in what seemed a lawful and patriotic manner.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)