Anthony Blackmon, standing, listens as Jimmy Quick Sr. tells a story Saturday at a pro-incorporation voter rally at the Berlin Community Center. Berlin residents can head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to incorporate the community as Cullman County’s newest municipality. Also pictured is Don Bates, left.

After years of work, residents of the Berlin community will finally have their chance to determine if they want to incorporate into a town today. 

More than 300 voters who live in the proposed boundaries of the area are eligible to vote. 

The referendum will be at the Berlin Community Center, with polls opening at 7 a.m. and closing at 7 p.m.

Berlin resident Patrick Bates has led the incorporation effort and is obligated to pay for the cost of the election, estimated at $5,000-$10,000.

Bates and other supporters of the effort have drawn an anticipated municipal boundary that he said includes about a third of the registered voters in the community. 

The Berlin community contains between 20 and 30 miles of public roads, not including US 278, and Bates has said the condition and maintenance of roads was a motivating force in pushing for incorporation.