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The Town of Berlin
lies in a low range of hills between the Nashua and the Assabet River
Valleys. Incorporated in 1812, the town is a residential and
agricultural community, growing mixed hay grains and raising cattle. For
a period after the Civil War, Berlin was home to a large shoe factory,
and shoe manufacturing and lumbering provided non-agrarian jobs. The
town soon moved into specialty market gardening, sending 41,000 bunches
of asparagus to market in 1885, growing hops and raising chickens. By
1940, 83,600 dozen eggs were produced annually by the poultry farmers of
Berlin. Berlin continues to be a small, stable town, with a handsome
Victorian town hall, the walls of which incorporate the pictures of
Berlin residents who went to fight in the Civil War. One of the local
attractions at the turn of the century, "Balance Rock", remains
untouched by change.
(Seal supplied by
community. Narrative based on information provided by the Massachusetts
Historical Commission) |
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