Berlin Connecticut (CT) 06037

Welcome to Berlin Connecticut in Hartford County 

The Town of Berlin offers residents, businesses and visitors a uniquely balanced setting meshing the best facets of rural and suburban living, supported by a strong industrial base. Berlin's strategic location is ideal for wholesale trade, and distribution to the Northeast region and the entire East Coast. Indeed, the exact geographical center of Connecticut is located in East Berlin.

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History:

Berlin, Connecticut, the home of "The Yankee Peddler", is located at the geographic center of the state. The area was originally know as PAGONCHAWNISCHAGE (the great white oak place), by the Mattabasset Indians.

Berlin was proud to have one of the 75 official post offices designated by Benjamin Franklin, first Postmaster General. An historic marker showing that the next post office was in Hartford, 11 miles away, is still located on Worthington Ridge.

The population of the town today is now over 18,000. Churches other than Congregational were slow in appearing, but after the Civil War, ecclesiastical diversity came to Berlin and remains today. The town presently houses three public elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and several private-parochial schools. There are three private libraries, with Berlin Peck Memorial Library being the largest. Timberlin Park provides an 18 hole golf course, tennis courts, picnic areas, hiking trails, restaurant and pro shop. In the 1930's, a Police Department was formed, and a system of four Volunteer Fire Departments was organized. Well over, 1000 acres of open space have been dedicated to parks.

Berlin Public Schools 

There are 3 elementary schools, Mary E. Griswold School, Emma Hart Willard School, and Richard D. Hubbard School, as well as Catherine M. McGee Middle School, and Berlin High School.