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 past grown in population. It is allocation of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The town of Berlin lies higher than land that was originally the 300-acre Burley Plantation, patented by William Tomkins in 1677. With the spread of ancient Native American migratory and hunting trails into colonial highways, the Burley Plantation became a crossroads of a herald 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 accompanied by the first time-honored businesses in the extra 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 at the forefront 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 period of significant bump ensued. Within the bordering decade, the introduction of the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Railroad made Berlin into a commercial center for upper Worcester County. After a flare in 1895 leveled a significant share of the central personal ad district, Victorian structures displaying elements of Queen Anne, Italianate, and Second Empire styles were erected along Main Street. The rise of to hand Ocean City as a tourist destination in the early-twentieth century plus aided Berlin’s economy by making the town a convenient dismount stop. Just to the north of the town middle of Berlin is Ocean Pines, Maryland, a waterfront census-designated place (CDP) that shares the similar ZIP code as Berlin.

Since the late 1980s, the town has undergone considerable revitalization of its historic downtown billboard district and next residential areas. Berlin’s historic residential areas feature nearly two centuries of architectural heritage from three sure periods: Federal, Victorian, and 20th Century. Forty-seven of these structures have been noted in the National Register of Historic Places and the Berlin Commercial District. Berlin has as a consequence been designated as a “Main Street Community” by the State of Maryland in confession of its revitalization progress.