The downtown area had three devastating fires in 1895, 19. Berlin is also the birthplace of Stephen Decatur, the 19th century naval hero. The town is the 1885 birthplace of the Reverend Charles Albert Tindley who composed the now famous song “We Shall Overcome” among his many achievements. In the early 1900s Berlin’s bustling commercial and tourist business supported more hotels than neighboring Ocean City.īerlin boasts 47 structures on the National Register of Historic Places spanning two centuries of architecture. It is believed that the name Berlin was derived from a contraction of “Burleigh Inn,” a tavern at the crossroads of the Philadelphia Post and Sinepuxent Roads. In colonial times the path became the Philadelphia Post Road, the main travel route up the shore to the centers of commerce to the north and west. The town’s Main Street was originally part of the path connecting the Assateague Indians with the neighboring Pocomoke tribe. The village of Berlin (accent on the first syllable), began in the 1790s around the original 300 acre 1677 land grant that became Burley Plantation.
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