New Berlin High School has been deemed eligible to be listen in the
National Register of Historic Places. There is an approved process in place to ensure that we preserve the history of the building. There are a number of activities that we will be doing to accomplish this. Here is an update on one of the activities that took place this week.Students in NBHS research classes will produce a historical narrative of the Building
and NBHS:
1. The timeframe for the narrative will be from the beginning of use of the current
Building to present state.
2. The narrative will include a timeline of phases of construction, phases of usage,
and changes over time.
3. NBHS students in photography and research classes will participate in field trips to
research collections of the West Sangamon Public Library and the Sangamon
Valley Collection at the Springfield Lincoln Library and the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Library and Museum. took the NBHS Research classes on a field trip this week to research the Sangamon Archives at the Abraham Lincoln Museum.
Mrs. Hepperly and Mrs. Pecoraro to the NBHS Research Classes this week to begin gathering information on the historical narrative of the building. Please click on the button below to view their pictures!
More information will be coming soon regarding other activities that involve community members and capturing oral histories, pictures of the building as it has changed over the years, the uses of different areas now compared to then, and many other parts of our Pretzel History.
