Berlin (Vermont)
Washington County
50-05650
Berlin is a city founded in 1763 in the northeastern United States. According to the 2010 census living in the community in the district of Washington County of the U.S. state of Vermont 2,887 people.
The area was officially released on June 8, 1763 by charter to colonize, but systematically colonized until 1785. In the release guaranteed the Royal Governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, 64 people from the neighboring Connecticut and New York farmland, as long as they each year in time for Christmas an ear of corn maize (Indian corn ) per acre ( about 4047 sqm) and after ten years of a Shilling paid per 100 acres.
For 21 families in 1790 than in Berlin are sedentary shows for 1795 already 65 The constituent town meeting was held on 31 March 1791. A first, shared by the religious communities meetinghouse was built in 1801 but burned down in winter 1837. An epidemic that ran through wide areas of Vermont in 1813 (probably chickenpox ) also hit Berlin and caused some deaths. For this year, 30 deaths were registered, in contrast to 13 to 14 deaths in the annual average of the previous 10 years.
The village had grown from the beginning without distinct town center and purely agricultural oriented. Here, the farming of livestock has been given the priority. 1840 was by far the main crop, the potato, only by far followed by maize and wheat. The composition of the crafts was aligned according to: There was only a grocer and a machine shop, but four farriers and eight shoemakers.
The structure of the region is still substantially maintained. For many residents, the center is an intersection ( Paine Turnpike North to Route 62 ), for others the airport, the county hospital, the shopping center (Berlin Mall) or standing on a hill congregational church with the old cemetery (Berlin Cemetery ).
Berlin is from the highway ( Interstate 89) cut into two parts, one part of the West "West Berlin" is called. In the south of the town there is a lake, the Berlin Pond, who supplied the capital of Vermont, Montpelier with drinking water. The Central Vermont Medical Center with 122 beds, the primary hospital for 66,000 residents of the central Vermont. Berlin is home to a library ( the Midstate Regional Library ), a police station and a run by volunteers institute for research into the history of Berlin, the Berlin Heritage Center.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Chauncey L. Knapp (1809-1898), American politician and representative of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives
- Liz Allbee (born 1976 ), American trumpeter
Nearby Cities
All information bee-line distances.
- North Montpelier, 5.0 km
- Northeast: Plainfield, 14.5 km
- Southeast: Barre City, 6.5 km
- South: Randolph, 33.0 km
- Southwest: Northfield, 10.0 km
- West: Fayston, 22.5 km
- Northwest: Waterbury, 19.0 km
Grave stone of the first pastor in Berlin, James Hobart (1766-1862)
The Congregation Church at the Berlin Corner
Berlin Cemetery ( one of several cemeteries )