Babbitt Metal. Babbitt metal, is an antifriction metal alloy first produced by Isaac Babbitt in 1839. In present-day usage the term is applied to a whole class of silver-white bearing metals, or white metals. These alloys usually consist of relatively hard crystals embedded in a softer matrix, a structure important for machine bearings.
Burlington is 13 miles west of the Kansas border and 166 miles east of Denver, Colorado. Passing through Stratton, Seibert is 35 miles west of Burlington along Interstate-70 (I-70).
Today, it is a great destination for historical sights and the perfect place to spend the day heading to or from the mountains on Colorado's Eastern Plains. Burlington is home to the Kit Carson County Carousel, a Nationally designated Historic Site in 1978 and a Nationally designated Historic Landmark in 1987. The Carousel, built in 1905, is a hand carved wooden merry-go-round.