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Somers, Wisconsin

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53: 978: 376:) and Twelfth Street (Kenosha County Highway E). The area once was the location of the namesake Central Park, a sprawling private recreational park, baseball field, and picnic grounds that was served by a stop of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L) interurban line which had installed layover sidings for its rail cars waiting to reload and return picnickers to their homes. Central Park often hosted many annual company picnics including those of the 364:(Sheridan Road). The community was named for the proliferation of strawberry farms in the area. The Berryville School was a community fixture into the 1980s, when it was demolished for new housing. Adjacent to the school to the south was the Mid-City Outdoor Theatre (1948-1984), one of Wisconsin's first drive-in theatres. 314:
The village of Somers was incorporated on April 24, 2015, following a local election that favored incorporation. While the village originally only included the eastern half of the town's former boundaries, it now includes almost all of the original town;
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of frame construction that eventually became privately owned and was demolished by its owner in 1990. The school's rustic foundation remains to mark its location.
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Berryville is a residential and business community located in the eastern part of the village, at the intersection of Kenosha County Highway A (7th Street) and
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Kellogg's Corners (often called Kellogg) is a residential and agricultural community in the northwestern corner of the village. It lies at the junction of
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Central Park is a residential and business community within the southeastern corner of the village. It is centered on the intersection of Sheridan Road (
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A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways
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53171. The former unincorporated communities of Berryville, Central Park, and Kellogg's Corners are located in the village.
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on April 15, 1843, by an act of the Wisconsin territorial legislature, and became Somers in 1851.
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By far, the most notable Kellogg's Corners landmark was the
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Berryville, Wisconsin
Village
Location of Somers in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
42°37′17″N 87°52′17″W / 42.62139°N 87.87139°W / 42.62139; -87.87139
Country
State
Wisconsin
County
Kenosha
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
ZIP Code
Area code
262
FIPS code
GNIS
somers.org
village
Kenosha County
Wisconsin
2020 census
post office
ZIP code
the remainder
Kenosha
United States Census Bureau
Highway 32

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