Here are some highlights of Berea history:
1807: U.S Postmaster Gideon Granger gains control of Township 6, Range 14 — the future Middleburgh Township.
1809: The Hickox family starts to settle the township.
1828: John Baldwin arrives and starts the Lyceum Village commune.
1836: By flipping a coin, locals name a new post office Berea.
1842: The Baldwin Quarry Co. debuts.
1845: The Baldwin Institute opens.
1850: Berea incorporates as a village.
1863: German Wallace College breaks away from what had become Baldwin University.
1894: The Cuyahoga County fair moves to Berea.
1913: Baldwin University and German Wallace reunite as Baldwin-Wallace College.
1930: Berea starts to form a city government.
1932: BW launches what's now the longest-running collegiate Bach festival in the U.S.
1948: BW track star Harrison Dillard wins the first two of his four Olympic gold medals.
1978: Alumnus Lee Tressel leads BW to a national football championship.
1984: The city opens a pioneering water plant named for Dimiter Ramadanoff, a local scientist who stumped for it.
1991: The Browns begin to train here.
2009: The Lake to Lake Trail opens.
2013: The Browns upgrade their training and corporate headquarters.
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