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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 ...
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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 ]
German-American culture in Pittsburgh (6 P) Pages in category "German-American culture in Pennsylvania" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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 ...
This area was developed between 1850 and 1900 by immigrants who were almost exclusively German. As a result, the area was called Dutchtown , a mispronunciation of Deutschtown . Its residents created a business district on East Ohio Street and a residential district running south of it, from Cedar Street (on the western border with Allegheny ...