The town of Berlin, Ontario, held a referendum in 1916 to change it's its name in light of the reference to Germany during the First World War. It became known as Kitchener, Ontario from then on.

Last time I looked, a decent house in Berlin was $50k, and I was curious how bad inflation was up north. No surprise, good houses aren’t $50k any more, but some ugly houses are, and something decent is pretty much half-price what you’d pay here in Southern NH. Maybe it’s a place to retire … especially now that the smell is gone. All the smelly NH towns are gone, not even Greenville reeks anymore. What’s the world coming to?

as a campaign volunteer in the 1976 presidential primary, and I can still smell that paper mill.

I don't know, with all that snow, I think it's "BRRR-lin".

The gas station building is still there, but looks like a shell of itself.

it's not far from Lancaster and Lunenburg.

Accent on the first syllable, not the second as in Germany.

Earl Silas Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, was born (1907) in Berlin. I'll also note that little in the March 1940 photo has has changed today, however the large paper mill, to the left and outside the frame of this picture, which dominated Berlin's skyline for a century, is now gone.

Directions to Berlin from an old man in Franconia … drive north and you’ll smell it when you get there.

I was stuck in post-eclipse traffic at just about this spot on NH-16 earlier this year (as in, it probably took me 30 minutes to cover the distance from the bottom of the photo to where the road turns). The buildings on the right-hand side of the photo, from the roof in the lower right-hand corner to the church (St. Anne's), are all there and basically as they were (perhaps some different paint colors).

The paper mills are all closed; a pleasant change for the nose, though difficult for the local economy.

... along with the railroad tracks: