Burlington, WA: In the early morning hours of August 2nd, 2015, firefighters from District 6, responded to a fully involved house fire on Peacock Lane in Burlington. The house is directly next door to the Football Field on Peacock Lane.
According to neighbors, the home has been abandoned for quite some time and there have been quite a few problems with homeless people and squatters at the house lately. It had caught fire and burned once previously several months ago.
After we shared photos of the fire on our Social media pages, neighbors in the area gave us a bit of a history lesson on the house.
Clint Morgan posted, “That was Fred and Bee Burr’s old house; they lived there for years. They both died years ago, and Fred is buried in the Burlington Cemetery. Their son Jerry had the house at the base of the hill with the airstrip. They had a great little farm with a filbert orchard and peacocks. Bee always made caramel apples and popcorn balls for Halloween. And it is named Peacock Lane because the Peacock family homesteaded there back in the day; their original house is still there – it’s the white two-story with beige trim on the left/west side of the road, fourth house down from the little pond (which used to be part of Gage’s Slough) also on the left. Alice Peacock, the daughter of the original settler, became a school teacher in Seattle, came back to Burlington after retirement, and lived at the homestead until she died in the early sixties. Her dream was that the property would be sold to the Burlington School District, and that a grade school would be built there named after her family. There were only five houses/farms on the street when I grew up there, everything else around was farmland, to Gardner Road on the east and Burlington Hill on the west. I can hardly bear to even drive down the lane anymore.”
Joey Vanderpol posted, “Such a shame. That house must have been beautiful in its day. I always hoped someone would come in and kick out the squatters/druggies and clean it up.”
Sara Randall posted, “it was Dottie Burrs home until she was remarried years ago and moved to Mt Vernon”
Josett Comstock posted, ” It was a nice house. They owned a filbert farm and she was very involved in CampFire. We would go pick pounds and pounds of filberts and they had a few peacocks that roamed around the yard.
The address listed by Skagit 9-1-1 that fire units responded to is listed as 10972 Peacock Lane. According to a free property search on the website SkagitCounty.net the home is owned by Newton-Kight Retirement Trust of Everett, Washington.
We were unable to contact the home owners for comment on the fire or the history of the home.
Here is a Gallery of Photos from the Fire taken by Skagit Breaking Staff:
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