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Berlin is a town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States which includes its own historical Berlin Commercial District. The population was 4,485 at the 2010 census, and has since grown in population. It is share of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The town of Berlin lies on height of land that was originally the 300-acre Burley Plantation, patented by William Tomkins in 1677. With the fee of ancient Native American migratory and hunting trails into colonial highways, the Burley Plantation became a crossroads of a broadcast road leading to Philadelphia (today’s Main Street) and the Sinepuxent Road. Berlin developed in the early-19th century at this crossroads, where a tavern, blacksmith shop, and livery were in the midst of the first received businesses in the other town. Regional tradition asserts that the pronunciation of the town’s name, “Burl’in” with emphasis on the first syllable, stems from the “Burley Inn,” the to come tavern that stood at the crossroads of the Philadelphia Post and Sinepuxent Roads.

Soon after the Civil War, Berlin was incorporated as a town in 1868 and a times of significant deposit ensued. Within the next-door decade, the coming on of the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Railroad made Berlin into a commercial center for upper Worcester County. After a blaze in 1895 leveled a significant allocation of the central classified ad district, Victorian structures displaying elements of Queen Anne, Italianate, and Second Empire styles were erected along Main Street. The rise of friendly Ocean City as a tourist destination in the early-twentieth century along with aided Berlin’s economy by making the town a convenient rest stop. Just to the north of the town center of Berlin is Ocean Pines, Maryland, a haven census-designated place (CDP) that shares the thesame ZIP code as Berlin.