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By 1790, 28% of white residents living between Strasburg and Harrisonburg were German Americans. Jost Hite, a German leader, had been granted 100,000 acres by Virginia officials working to develop the region. He resold smaller family plots of between 100 and 500 acres to local German settlers. [10]
1770, first American book on pedagogy written by Christopher Dock and published in Germantown; October 4, 1777, Battle of Germantown; 1793, during the Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic, President Washington and his cabinet move to Germantown; 1794, Washington spends two months in Germantown to avoid the heat in Philadelphia
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 ...
Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria led to the removal of German names in public, names of things such as streets, [100] and businesses. [101]
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Black-and-white photos have their own nostalgic charm, but sometimes they can feel a little distant, like glimpses of a world we can’t quite connect with. ... #15 Japanese-American Camp, War ...
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 ...
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.