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.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Berlin yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
There is another Town of Berlin in Green Lake County, Wisconsin. There is also the city of Berlin, Wisconsin. Berlin is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 949 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Emmerich and Naugart are located in the town. The unincorporated community of Teagesville is also located partially in the town. The ghost town of Ziegler was also located in the town.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 945 in 2010, 949 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Berlin in 1913
Passages that mention Berlin, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Marathon County, Wisconsin1913 · page 542Read the page →
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The oldest real farm settlements were made by German fanners in the towns of Berlin, Stettin and Marathon about the same time in 1856 and 1857; not that there were no other famis in other localities, as for instance, on Mechanics Ridge in the town of Wausau, and others mentioned in chapter on "Early Settlements," but those settlements were rather of a sporadic character, made by loggers and mechanics who carried on farming only as a sort of side line to their regular lumbering employment, and who made not much progress as farmers. But the men that went into the town of Berlin — and that
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History of Marathon County, Wisconsin1913 · page 498Read the page →
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The few families living in ]\Iarathon City belonging to this faith in 1879 organized into a congregation and Pastor William Hudtloff, the resident minister from the town of Berlin, held services for them in the school house. When Reverend Hudtloff was succeeded in the town of Berlin by Rev. J. J. Hofifmann, he took also that mission upon himself and continued to hold church for the small congregation as Reverend Hudtlofif had done.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Berlin, 1866 to 1940
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the Library of Congress (12), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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