New Berlin contained a series of important United Methodist and Evangelical Association sites, including the first church building and first printing house of the Evangelical Association, both erected in 1816 as the first such structures in the denomination; a second church building erected in 1873 and used until 1929; a second printing house used from 1837 to 1854 that later served as a girls' dormitory for Union Seminary from 1854 to 1864; the Vallerchamp Home, where Ruthanna Vallerchamp, widow of Rev. Azima Vallerchamp, ministered to Union Seminary students from 1854 until her death in 1886; Emmanuel United Methodist Church, erected by the United Brethren in Christ in 1857; and the site of Union Seminary, used from 1856 to 1887, and Central Pennsylvania College, used from 1887 to 1902, the first permanent educational endeavor of the Evangelical Association, which merged into Albright College at Myerstown, Pennsylvania, in 1902. The town was also associated with the home of Rev. Francis C. Hoffman, who served on the faculty of Union Seminary from 1861 to 1863 and as principal from 1863 to 1871; the home of Rev. W. W. Orwig, publisher of the Evangelical Association from 1836 to 1859, principal of Union Seminary from 1859 to 1863, and elected bishop in 1863; and the site of a Methodist Episcopal church erected in 1845 and discontinued before 1876. New Berlin Cemetery contains graves linked to this religious history, including Rev. Solomon Miller, first publisher of the Evangelical Association from 1816 to 1819; Rev. George Miller, a co-laborer of the successor to Jacob Labright and brother of Rev. Solomon Miller; George Miller, known as "the printer" of the Evangelical Association; Rev. Azima Vallerchamp and Rev. James Barber, both pioneer Evangelical Association preachers; Rev. Peter Beaver, a pioneer Methodist Episcopal preacher and one of very few fluent in German; and Rev. Aaron Ezra Gobble, principal of Union Seminary from 1881 to 1887 and president of Central Pennsylvania College from 1887 to 1902.