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History of Berlin, New Hampshire, USA

Journey back in time to Berlin, New Hampshire, USA

(Maynesborough)

Visit Berlin, New Hampshire, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

•  1842 - June 11 - A late season snowstorm struck New England. Snow fell during the morning and early afternoon, accumulating to a depth of ten to twelve inches at Irasburg VT. Berlin NH was blanketed with eleven inches of snow during the day.
  Snow whitened the higher peaks of the Appalachians as far south as Maryland.
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  June 11, 1842
  
  
• 1854 - Berlin
  Berlin, a post-township of Coos county, New Hampshire, about 125 miles N. of Con cord, well-watered by the Androscoggin and Amonoosuck rivers....Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1882 - January 15 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
  
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  January 15, 1882
  
  
• 1895 - Berlin
  Berlin, a township of Coos co., N.H., on the Grand Trunk Railroad. Pop. 529.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
  
•  1896 - Big Plant is Burned
  Berlin, N. H. Sept. 21 - The lumber mills, cabinet factory, grist mills and considerable lumber, owned by the Berlin Manufacturing company, were...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1898 - Fire
  BERLIN, N. H., March 26. - A fire which started in Cote's block on Main Street, about 1 o'clock this morning, partially destroyed the building,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street looking South
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  View of Dam, Burgess Mills
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  Berlin, N. H., looking up River from Cascade Mills
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•  1905 - SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE.
  Berlin, N. H. Dec. 13 - During a fire that damaged the dwelling house of J.D. Lary to the extent of about $15,000, Xavier Arslneault, a boarder,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Birds Eye View of Berlin, N.H., looking up the Grand Trunk
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  High Street
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•  1907 - THEATRE BURNED OUT.
  Berlin, N. H. Nov. 25. - The interior of the Albert theatre building, a four story brick block of modern construction, was burned out. The fire...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1908 - FIRE LOSS OF $400,000 Blaze at Berlin, N. H., Wipes Out Eight Business Buildings
  Berlin, N. H., Feb. 5. - With the thermometer at 20 degrees below zero, eight buildings in the heart of the business district of this city were...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  International Paper Co. Plant
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  Main Street, 1909
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  Berlin, N.H., Berlin and Mt. Forest from Opera House Block
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  Cascade Mills
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  Coos County Court House
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  Central Fire Station
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  High School
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  Public Library
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  Post Office Square
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  The Albert Theatre
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  100,000 cords of Pulp Wood, Burgess Sulphite Fiber Co., Berlin, N.H.
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  Main Street from Post Office Square
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• 1916
  Berlin, a banking city of Coos co., N.H., on the Androscoggin River and on the Boston and Maine and the Grand Trunk Rs., 98 miles NW. of Portland. It ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Mason Street Bridge over Androscoggin River, 1916
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  View on Androscoggin River from Y.M.C.A. Bridge
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  Burgess Sulphite Mill and Swinging Bridge
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  Princess Theatre and City National Bank
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  Main Street, Berlin, N.H., looking South
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• 1943 - November 23 - Northern New Hampshire was in the grips of a record snowstorm which left a total of 55 inches at Berlin, and 56 inches at Randolph.
  
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