History · Berlin Heights

Berlin Heights’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Berlin Heights. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

2old images & papers
1historic places
1need a date
Tuttle home, Walnut Grove Farm, Berlin Heights, Ohio (A golden sheaf, 1907), 1907 · Wikimedia Commons

The story

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In the late 1850s a branch of the "free love" movement was established in Berlin Heights.

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Timeline

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1907Tuttle home, Walnut Grove Farm, Berlin Heights,…Commons
1910–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Berlin Heights’s history is told.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewTuttle home, Walnut Grove Farm, B…, 1907: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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By decade

Berlin Heights, decade by decade

1910s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Berlin Heights is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Berlin Heights has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Stone House, The in Berlin, 1.2 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Stone House, The’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Berlin Heights?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Berlin Heights’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Tuttle home, Walnut Grove Farm, Berlin Heights, Ohio (A golden sheaf, 1907) (1907) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (4) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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