Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Berlin, NH

Berlin is the only city in Coos County, New Hampshire, and the northernmost city in the state, located along the Androscoggin River, with a population of 9,425 at the 2020 census and 3,988 households.

Berlin was first granted on December 31, 1771, by Colonial Governor John Wentworth as Maynesborough after Sir William Mayne, was settled in 1823 and 1824 by William Sessions and his nephew Cyrus Wheeler, and was reincorporated on July 1, 1829, as Berlin with 65 inhabitants, becoming a city in 1897.

Berlin developed into a center for logging and wood industries, and by 1885 the mill town was home to several pulp and paper mills, including the Riverside Mill, the Forest Fibre Company and the White Mountain Pulp and Paper Company, with the Berlin Mills Company renamed the Brown Company in 1917.

The pulp mill closed in March 2006, displacing 250 employees, and Berlin's population, which peaked at more than 20,000 in the 1930 census, has fallen to about half that peak.

In 1872 a group of Scandinavians founded the nation's oldest ski club in Berlin, originally called the North American Ski Club and later renamed the Nansen Ski Club in honor of Fridtjof Nansen, who skied across Greenland in 1888.

The pronunciation of Berlin was changed from Ber-LIN to BUR-lin during World War I as a patriotic stand against Germany.

Because Quebec is less than 60 miles away, Berlin has many people of French Canadian descent, and around 65 percent of its residents speak a variant of New England French known locally as Berlin French.

Berlin covers 62.2 square miles, of which 61.35 square miles are land, and is situated at the confluence of the Androscoggin and Dead rivers, with Mount Weeks at 3,901 feet as its highest point and Mount Forist rising 2,031 feet over the west side of the city.

Jericho Mountain State Park, created from a city park and private land in 2005, is west of the city center and features a reservoir created in the 1970s and a network of ATV trails, and Berlin is also home to the Berlin Fish Hatchery and the White Mountains Community College.

Berlin is the principal city of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Coos County, New Hampshire, and Essex County, Vermont.