Berlin, Connecticut Berlin, Connecticut Rural Berlin from Short Mountain Rural Berlin from Short Mountain Official seal of Berlin, Connecticut Location inside Hartford County, Connecticut Location inside Hartford County, Connecticut Berlin (/ b rl n/ bur-lin) is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.
The geographic center of Connecticut is positioned in the town.
Berlin is residentiary and industrial, and is served by the Amtrak station of the same name.
Berlin also has two hamlets: Kensington and East Berlin.
The greatest boom to Berlin trade resulted from the decision of the Patterson brothers to start their company on West Street (now called Lower Lane).
When demand increased they took apprentices into the shop and engaged peddlers to travel throughout the colonies selling the shiny, useful articles (the seal of the Town of Berlin shows such a "Yankee peddler" in eighteenth-century dress with a basket under his arm, a pack on his back full of tinware).
There were so many that the noise of the whitesmiths and their hammering could be heard in every part of town.
The town took parts away from Wethersfield (Now Rocky Hill and Newington), Middletown (Now Cromwell), Wallingford (Now Meriden) and Farmington (Now Southington and New Britain).
Berlin was one of the birthplaces of interchangeable parts manufacturing and of the industrialized revolution in the United States, in the workshop of Simeon North.
In 1659, Sergeant Richard Beckley purchased 300 acres from Chief Tarramuggus, assembled a home for his family and became the first settler in what was to turn into Berlin.
Parts of the suburbs of Farmington, Wethersfield and Middletown were added to increase the territory area, and the name changed to Kensington.
1785 brought incorporation of the town, which was then called Berlin.
New Britain remained a part of Berlin until 1850.
In the 1800s, company of all sorts thrived in Berlin.
Berlin was on the direct route from New Haven to Hartford, with taverns and inns, which were regular stagecoach stops for fresh horses, meals and sleeping accommodations.
The Worthington Meetinghouse was in continuous use as a church, town hall, school and town offices until 1974.
Berlin was proud to have one of the 75 official postal services designated by Benjamin Franklin, first Postmaster General.
By the late 1700s, a village library had been started, and the town boasted of five school districts.
The Berlin Railroad Depot opened as a way station on the New York, New Haven and Hartford line.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 27.0 square miles (69.9 km2), of which 26.3 square miles (68.2 km2) is territory and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2), or 2.45%, is water. The geographic center of Connecticut is positioned in Berlin.
The west side of Berlin is bordered by the Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap modern ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
Notable mountain peaks of the Metacomet ridge in Berlin include the Hanging Hills, Lamentation Mountain, Short Mountain, and Ragged Mountain.
As of the 2010 census Berlin had a populace of 19,866.
The ethnic makeup of the populace was 94.9% white, 0.7% black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 2.7% Asian, 0.6% from some other race and 1.0% from two or more competitions.
As of the census of 2000, there were 18,215 citizens , 6,792 homeholds, and 5,155 families residing in the town.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 97.03% White, 0.36% African American, 0.05% Native American, 1.65% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.18% from other competitions, and 0.73% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $68,068, and the median income for a family was $76,756.
About 1.4% of families and 2.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 0.9% of those under age 18 and 6.8% of those age 65 or over.
According to Berlin's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Town of Berlin 611 Born in Minnesota, Mc - Kinniss was raised in Berlin from age 1.
Mc - Gee Middle School, and Berlin High School.
Besides these, two private education schools in Berlin include Saint Paul School (Founded 1958) and Mooreland Hill School (Founded 1930) The town's enhance library is the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library positioned at the Arthur B.
Although taken from the name of the Prussian capital, Berlin, which receives the stress in its pronunciation on the second syllable, the name of the town in Connecticut has always received the stress in its pronunciation on the first syllable, in keeping with the recessive accent usual in the pronunciation of English.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Berlin town, Hartford County, Connecticut".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
2010 populace by race and Hispanic or Latino by place chart for Connecticut from the US Enumeration Town of Berlin CAFR[permanent dead link] Town of Berlin official website Berlin, Connecticut Municipalities and communities of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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