Berlin (Vermont)

Berlin
Chauncey B. Leonard House in Berlin
Location in Vermont
Berlin
Basic data
Foundation :	June 8, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 13 ′  N , 72 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 13 ′  N , 72 ° 35 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,887 (as of 2010)
Population density :	30.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	95.6 km 2  (about 37 mi 2 ) of which 94.5 km 2  (about 36 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	270 m
Postal code :	05602
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-05650
GNIS ID :	1462042
Website :	www.berlinvt.org

Berlin is a town in Washington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2887 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Berlin is in the east of Washington County. The Dog River flows through the western part of the town in a northerly direction and flows into the Winooski River . In the southeast, but west of Interstate 89, is Berlin Pond. There are several protected forest areas, such as the Berlin Town Forest in the south and the Boyer State Forest in the center of the town. The highest point is the 632 m high Irish Hill on Berlin Pond.

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Middlesex , 4.5 km
• Northeast: Montpelier , 4.7 km
• East: Barre City , 7 miles
• East: Barre Town , 9.3 miles
• South: Williamstown , 5.1 mi
• Southwest: Northfield , 5.8 mi
• West: Moretown , 5.5 mi

climate

The mean average temperature in Berlin is between −8 ° C in January and 19 ° C in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is up to six meters, about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, and in the period from September to December even significantly less.

history

The area was officially released for settlement by charter on June 8, 1763 , but was not systematically settled until 1785. In the release, the Royal Governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, guaranteed 64 people from neighboring Connecticut and New York agricultural land, as long as they have one ear of Indian corn per acre (about 4047 m²) every year for Christmas and one after ten years Shillings paid for every 100 acres.

For 1790, 21 families are registered as resident in Berlin, for 1795 already 65. The constituent city assembly took place on March 31, 1791. A first community hall shared by the religious communities was built in 1801, but burned down in the winter of 1837. An epidemic that spread across large areas of Vermont in 1813 (presumably chickenpox) also struck Berlin and caused several 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 grew from the beginning without a pronounced town center and was purely agricultural. Agriculture was given priority over cattle breeding. In 1840 the most important field crop was by far the potato, corn and wheat followed a long way behind. The composition of the trades was also geared accordingly: there was only one grocer and one machine shop , but four farriers and eight shoemakers.

Felt center of Berlin

The structure of the region has largely been preserved. For many residents, the center is a street intersection (Paine Turnpike North with Route 62), for others the airport, the district hospital, the shopping center (Berlin Mall) or the congregation church standing on a hill with the old cemetery (Berlin Cemetery).

Berlin is cut into two parts by Interstate 89 , of which the western part is called "West Berlin". In the south of the town there is a lake, the Berlin Pond, which supplies the Vermont capital, Montpelier , with drinking water. The Central Vermont Medical Center with 122 beds, the primary hospital for 66,000 inhabitants of the central Vermont. Berlin is home to a library (the Midstate Regional Library), a police station and a volunteer-run facility for researching the history of Berlin, the Berlin Heritage Center.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Berlin, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	684	1067	1455	1664	1598	1507	1545	1474	1380	1514
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1021	1079	959	992	1111	1158	1306	2050	2454	2561
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2864	2887

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 89 runs through Berlin in a north-south direction from Montpelier in the north to Brookfield in the south. In the northeast, US Highway 302 leads from Montpelier to Barre and in the west, Vermont State Route 12 runs from Montpelier to Northfield. The next Amtrak station is in Montpelier. East of Interstate 89 is Edward F. Knapp State Airport.

Public facilities

The Central Vermont Medical Center is located in Berlin . It also acts as a hospital for the region.

graveyards

Cemetery in Berlin

There are ten cemeteries in the area of ​​the Town Berlin: Berlin Corner Cemetery, Boles Cemetery, Cox Brook Cemetery, Dewey-Wright Cemetery, East Road Cemetery, The Black Cemetery, The Colby Cemetery, The Howard Cemetery, The Johnston-Sawyer Cemetery and the West Berlin Cemetery.

education

Along with Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex and Worcester, Berlin is part of the Washington Central Supervisory Union

The Berlin Elementary School , the building was built in 1969. In addition, the U-32 Middle & High School with school classes from 7th to 12th class. The school is also attended by students from the neighboring towns of Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex and Worcester.

Berlin does not have its own library, but three neighboring libraries can be used. The Kellogg-Hubbard Library on Main Street in Montpelier, the Aldrich Library on Washington Street in Barre, and the Brown Library on South Main Street in Northfield.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Liz Allbee (* 1976), American trumpeter
• Thomas H. Cave (1870–1958), American politician and Treasurer of Vermont
• Chauncey L. Knapp (1809–1898), American politician and Massachusetts representative in the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Phil Scott (born 1958), governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 22nd ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search). for history up to 1840 (English)

Web links

Commons : Berlin, Vermont  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official website of the municipality
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on March 18, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Irish Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010 (English)
5. ↑ Berlin, Vermont (VT 05602) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on February 28, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 22nd f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ Berlin Cemeteries - Berlin, VT . In: Berlin, VT . ( berlinvt.org ).
9. ^ Washington Central Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
10. ^ Schools - Berlin, VT . In: Berlin, VT . ( berlinvt.org ).
11. ^ Profiles / U-32 Middle & High School Profiles. In: wcsu32.org. Retrieved February 28, 2017 (English). 
12. ^ Libraries - Berlin, VT . In: Berlin, VT . ( berlinvt.org ).