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German immigrants began to settle along the Chesapeake Bay by 1723, living in the area that became Baltimore when the city was established in 1729. [9] German Lutheran immigrants established Zion Lutheran Church in 1755, which also attracted Pennsylvania Dutch settlers to the region.
German immigrants began to settle along the Chesapeake Bay by 1723, living in the Baltimore area. The General Assembly enlarged Baltimore Town in 1745 and incorporated David Jones's original settlement known as Jones Town.
This made them the second largest European ethnic group in the Baltimore area after the Germans. [13] In the same year Baltimore city's Irish population was 39,045, 6% of the city's population. [27] In 1940, 2,159 immigrants from Ireland lived in Baltimore. These immigrants comprised 3.5% of the city's foreign-born White population. [110]
United States historic place Mount Clare U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark Baltimore City Landmark Mount Clare, December 2011 Location Carroll Park, Baltimore, Maryland Coordinates 39°16′44″N 76°38′37″W / 39.27889°N 76.64361°W / 39.27889; -76.64361 Area 0 acres (0 ha) Built 1763 Architectural style Georgian NRHP reference No ...
An alternative interpretation commonly found among laypeople and scholars alike is that the Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is an anglicization or "corruption" (folk-etymological re-interpretation) of the Pennsylvania German autonym deitsch, which in the Pennsylvania German language refers to the Pennsylvania Dutch or Germans in general.
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In 1723 Germans became the first Europeans allowed to buy land in the Mohawk Valley west of Little Falls. One hundred homesteads were allocated in the Burnetsfield Patent. By 1750, the Germans occupied a strip some 12 miles (19 km) long along both sides of the Mohawk River. The soil was excellent; some 500 houses were built, mostly of stone ...