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Burnet County name founding piques interest

City of Meadowlakes Most of us have been living in Burnet County for a number of years. But who was the county named after? David Gouverneur Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1788.

City of Meadowlakes

Most of us have been living in Burnet County for a number of years. But who was the county named after?

David Gouverneur Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1788. He was the 14th child of William Burnet and the third of his second wife, Gertrude Rutgers Burnet.

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