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The German name of the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary. [32] Caroline County: Virginia: Named after Caroline of Ansbach. Cassel: Wisconsin: Named after Kassel, Germany. Catherine: Kansas: Named after the Volga German town of Katharinenstadt. [33] Charlotte: North Carolina: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, of the ruling family of a duchy in ...
Pages in category "German communities in the United States" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
I visited towns in the US that feel like Europe: Frankenmuth, Michigan; Helen, Georgia; and Leavenworth, Washington. One transported me to Germany.
Presidents with maternal German ancestry include Harry Truman, whose maternal grandfather Solomon Young was a descendant of Johann Georg Jung and Hans Michael Gutknecht, who emigrated from Germany together in 1752, [215] Richard Milhous Nixon, whose maternal ancestors were Germans who anglicized Melhausen to Milhous, [216] and Barack Obama ...
The German, and in particular, Franconian culture of the town, has been preserved and passed down through the generations. The German language is still prevalent in signage and speech, and German speakers continue to reside in the town. In addition, the church of St. Lorenz offers monthly services in the German language. [9]
I visited many towns in the US that feel like Switzerland. But my favorite Alpine-style villages are in Colorado: Ouray, Telluride, and Crested Butte.
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 ...
“Caribou is one of the northernmost cities in the United States, so a snowy Christmas is something you can expect,” said Flanders. “The median home price is $156,518 and the median rent is ...