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Berlin (/ ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / BUR-lin) is a town in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,175 at the 2020 census. [2] It was incorporated in 1785. The geographic center of Connecticut is located in the town. Berlin is residential and industrial, and is served by the Amtrak station of the same name.
Southbound at the beginning of the parkway, US 5 is signed as an exit (with no number) from the main roadway. North Broad Street continues north from the merge as a divided four-lane surface road for another 1.1 miles (1.8 km) up to the Berlin town line, where the road becomes the Berlin Turnpike. [1] [2]
The road continued to be an important travel route until the 1940s, when the Berlin Turnpike was built, diverting traffic away from the village. [2] The historic district is basically linear, extending along Worthington Ridge from Route 372 to Sunset Lane, including a few properties on Farmington Avenue, Sunset Lane and Hudson Street.
In 1962, US 5A in Meriden was removed and Route 71 signed at I-84 south of West Main Street was relocated to the former US 5A alignment (Cook Avenue and Old Colony Road). In 1969, Route 71 was extended to its current northern end at Route 173 in West Hartford after US 6 was relocated to I-84 (US 6A became US 6 in the early 1940s).
In the Kensington section of town, it intersects Route 71, and passes the Berlin Amtrak station. Just north of Berlin Center, it intersects Route 9 at Exit 22, the US 5/Route 15 concurrency (the Berlin Turnpike), and Route 9 again at Exit 21 in rapid succession. It continues east through East Berlin and crosses the Mattabesset River into
South Frontage Road, Huntington Street, Jay Street, Truman Street, Bank Street — — SR 642: 2.65: 4.26 Route 2 / Route 32 in Norwich: Route 2 / Route 32 / Route 169 in Norwich: Town Street, Washington Street — — SR 643: 0.13: 0.21 US 1 in New London: Route 213 in New London: Lee Avenue — — SR 644: 0.75: 1.21 Route 97 in Pomfret: US ...
The Berlin Turnpike is a 12.17-mile (19.59 km) major thoroughfare carrying U.S. Route 5 (US 5) and Route 15 in New Haven County and Hartford County in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The road begins one mile south of the Meriden–Berlin town line where Route 15 on the Wilbur Cross Parkway merges with US 5 along North Broad Street in Meriden and ...
The Berlin Turnpike splits and continues north-northeast along Route 314, narrowing to a two-lane undivided road, until it reaches the Hartford city line, continuing into that city as Maple Avenue. US 5/Route 15 exits onto a four-lane freeway that heads northeast towards I-91 as a controlled-access outlet into Hartford.