Epiphone always made a good guitar, Les Paul once said. And that after all, is what all musicians are looking for. The opening chapter of the Epiphone story begins about 140 years ago in Kastania in the mountains overlooking the ancient city of Sparta, Greece.
Burlington County, New Jersey (NJ) County population in 2014: 449,722 (93% urban, 7% rural); it was 423,394 in 2000. County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 98,323. County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 31,333. County owner-occupied houses and condos in 2000: 119,500.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 158th-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the 11th-highest in New Jersey) as of 2009. Burlington County is part of the Delaware Valley area, located east of the Delaware River. However, the county stretches across the state, and its southeast corner reaches tidal estuaries leading to southern New Jersey's Great Bay, which separates the county from the Atlantic Ocean.