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Relatively few place names in the United States have names of German origin, unlike Spanish or French names. Many of the German town names are in the Midwest, due to high German settlement in the 1800s. Many of the names in New York and Pennsylvania originated with the German Palatines (called Pennsylvania Dutch), who immigrated in the 18th ...
Pages in category "German communities in the United States" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
This is a list of the most populous municipal corporations of the United States. As defined by the United States Census Bureau, an incorporated place includes cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and municipalities. [a] A few exceptional census-designated places (CDPs) are also included in the Census Bureau's listing of incorporated places.
After 1840, many came to cities, where German-speaking districts emerged. [14] [15] [16] German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, [17] introduced the Christmas tree tradition, [18] [19] and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America. [20]
Missouri communities motivated by the war attempted to outlaw German, and campaigned to change street names from "offensive-sounding" German to acceptable American names. [9] [10] Hermann German is a form of Rhenish German (German: Rheindeutsch), and there are other German settlements and German American farms where German is still spoken to ...
The town was named Germantown by the group's leader Franz Pastorius, a German preacher from Sommerhausen. The town's population remained largely Dutch-speaking until 1709, after which a number of the Dutch families set out west and a series of major German emigrations reached Germantown and Pennsylvania as a whole. Their initial leader ...
City Total pop. Foreign-born (FB) pop. FB % of total Rank by FB % Hialeah, Florida: 218,901 162,951 74.4 1 Miami, Florida: 433,143 244,352 56.4 2 Santa Ana, California
Thirty-one of the 50 United States are home to a Washington County. There are more than 200 Washington Townships in the United States, including five (plus one Washington Borough) in the state of New Jersey. There are 7 towns of Washington (and one town of Port Washington) in Wisconsin, where towns correspond to townships rather than ...