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This road followed a Native American path from the Delaware River just north of Old City Philadelphia, through Germantown, about 6 miles northwest of Center City Philadelphia, and on to Pottstown. Settlement in the Germantown area began, at the invitation of William Penn , in 1683 by Nederlanders and Germans under the leadership of Francis ...
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42,589,571 Americans reported full or partial German Ancestry in the United States, making up approximately 13.04% of the country's 326.6 million inhabitants reporting ancestry in the 2020 ACS. [ 2 ] The five states with the greatest number of Americans with German Ancestry were Pennsylvania (2,915,171), California (2,786,161), Ohio (2,730,617 ...
Map of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, highlighting Germantown Borough prior to the Act of Consolidation (1854) Germantown (German: Deutschstadt) is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854. The area, which ...
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau 's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [ 7 ]
Germantown Township occupied the area known as the Germantown Tract surveyed by Thomas Holmes in 1683, [1] and depicted on his map of about 1687. The survey was prepared for Francis Daniel Pastorius, agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, and 13 German families, known as the "Original Thirteen Families", from Krefeld, Germany and nearby areas.
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The Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie Deitschland, Deitscherei, or Pennsilfaanisch-Deitschland), or Pennsylvania Dutchland, [4] [5] is a region of German Pennsylvania spanning the Delaware Valley and South Central and Northeastern regions of Pennsylvania. By the American Revolution in the 18th century, the region had ...