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History · New Berlin
New Berlin’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of New Berlin yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
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2 famous people
What stands out about New Berlin’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start New Berlin’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Berlin’s history is told.
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How New Berlin came to be From Wikipedia’s history of New Berlin.
Read it all → The village was founded in 1865 by a community of mostly German immigrants. Only a very few buildings from the original village still remain on the town's main thoroughfare, old Illinois State Route 54.
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New Berlin, decade by decade Famous people 2 famous people were born in New Berlin Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
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What used to stand where something else is now in New Berlin? → Who remembers New Berlin in the 1950s? → A family story from old New Berlin → Does anyone have photos of New Berlin from the 1990s? →
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