Berlin, Franklin County, Maine Genealogy
United States 
Maine Franklin Berlin
Berlin is an extinct town of Franklin County, Maine, now an unorganized territory (township) of Township 6 North of Weld. Berlin was established in 1824 from the Township 6 AP (also known as Number 6 Plantation).[1] The 1837 population was 470, and 2,175 bushels of wheat were grown there.[2] In 1842 her incorporation was repealed.[3] This place is now identified as Township 6 North of Weld in the West Central Franklin townships of Franklin County.
County. What is now Franklin County was set off from Lincoln to Kennebec County in 1799; to Somerset County in 1809; to Franklin County in 1838.[4]
Records. Berlin town and vital records, 1822-1851, are preserved in Phillips, Maine. A microfilm copy of Berlin town and vital records is available from the Family History Library on film 011744 Item 2.
Adjacent towns: Madrid Township | Phillips | Township E | Weld | Oxford County: Byron
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Michael J. Leclerc, Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research, 5th ed. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 151. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 974 D27g 2012.
- ↑ Berlin, Maine at New England Towns.org (accessed 19 April 2013).
- ↑ Maine Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration, Counties, cities, towns, and plantations of Maine : a handbook of incorporations, dissolutions, and boundary changes (Portland, Maine : The Survey, 1940), 103. Digital copy.
- ↑ Freeman Township, Franklin County, Maine] in Maine Genealogy (accessed 20 April 2013).
