Berlin (New Hampshire)

Coös County

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Berlin is a city on the Androscoggin River in Coos County in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. Berlin was founded in 1829 and has 10331 inhabitants (as of 2000). The city is also referred to as "The City did Trees Built".

History

The settlement rights in 1771 awarded. The name should Maynesborough loud, in honor of Sir William Mayne, a shareholder of Governor John Wentworth in the West India trade. The place was not settled until 1829, settlers from Berlin in Massachusetts changed the name as part of their settlement. Already in the years before a first, driven by the River sawmill was built. In the next few decades there have been no major changes. After 1850, however, three developments contributed to the fact that Berlin grew and in the meantime was the world's largest producer of newsprint. Firstly, the generation of electricity with the help of water turbines has been developed. 1852 Berlin was connected from the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad to the railway network. For the third set, the increasing immigration of cheap labor. 1852, the H. Winslow and Company was founded a society for the operation of sawmills. 1868, the company was renamed Berlin Mills Company. After 1880, after a William Wentworth Brown had all of the shares acquired, the company enlarged and expanded its business in addition to the sawmill on paper and pulp mills .. 1897 Berlin became the city. It is the northernmost city in New Hampshire.

Economy

The economy of Berlin is dominated by the large forests of the surrounding area. The timber industry provided the raw material for the paper industry, which was the most important source of income for over a hundred years of Berlin. 2006, the last major paper mill was closed. In January 2009, a part of the former mill site from the Laidlaw Energy Group, Inc. was acquired, in order to implement a project to generate energy from biomass. In addition, tourism is an important source of income especially the winter sports opportunities Presidential Range at nearby Mount Washington attracts tourists to the region.

Language

Of the population, 64.7 % speak English, 34.3% French and 1.0 % German.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Gaston Allaire, Canadian musicologist and pedagogue, composer
• Michael J. Durant, a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army, who was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu (Operation Irene )
• Earl Silas Tupper, a chemist and inventor of the eponymous Tupperware.