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The Town of Berlin Massachusetts.
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.
Berlin Massachusetts is located in
Central eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Bolton on the north, Hudson
and Marlborough on the east, Northborough on the south, and Boylston and
Clinton on the west. Berlin is 15 miles northeast of Worcester, 34 miles
west of Boston. |