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Berlin

The village of Berlin is the oldest existing village in Holmes County. It was laid out in 1816 with 108 plots, and all plots were purchased by 1821. Gradually Berlin became a thriving village and the center of commerce for the surrounding area. When the National Road was completed and Zane's Trace was improved to permit wagon traffic southward to Zanesville, storekeepers could more easily send wagons to obtain needed supplies. It was at this time that Berlin grew rapidly and out-distanced Benton as an outstanding business center. The town had machine shops, a foundry, dry goods stores, hotels, tailor shops, hat factories, blacksmith shops, a tannery, a chair factory, grist mills sawmills, and distilleries. In fact, the first real factory in the county was built in Berlin in 1847. This company made the first threshers to be manufactured in Ohio. Berlin was also home to the Berlin Academy which opened in the 1860s.

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