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Historic Germantown is Nashville's oldest neighborhood. Immigrants from Germany began to build homes there in the 1840s. [2] The area was established as Germantown in the 1850s. The boundaries of the district are Jefferson Street, third Avenue North, Taylor Street and Eight Avenue North. [1] The area encompasses 18 city blocks. [2]
The Free Library of Philadelphia 5708 Germantown Ave. 1907 Now housing the Center in the Park.org. A Carnegie Library; designed by Frank Miles Day & Brother: Germantown Town Hall [12] 5928–30 Germantown Ave.
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 ...
Germantown, Philadelphia, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, former borough Colonial Germantown Historic District , in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, listed on the National Register of Historic Places Germantown Township, Pennsylvania , a former unincorporated jurisdiction located mostly in what is now Philadelphia
Philadelphia, especially its Germantown section, was a center of the 19th-century American movement to abolish slavery, and the Johnson House was one of the key sites of that movement. Between 1770 and 1908, the house was the residence of five generations of the Johnson family.
John Wilbank (1788–1843) was a 19th-century American bell caster from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was appointed by the city of Philadelphia in 1828 [1] to cast the bell to replace the old damaged bell for Independence Hall, now known as the Liberty Bell.
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Kyriakoudes ...
The Vernon-Wister House is a historic house in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was built in 1803 by James Matthews, from whom John Wister purchased it in 1812. His son, John Wister, was a member of Congress and lived in Vernon until his death in 18