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17 unusual facts about Germantown


Anwar Phillips

Phillips attended Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland.

Claude Allen

Allen was apprehended by Germantown Target store loss prevention manager Pete Schomburg on January 2, 2006.

Clermont Estates Historic District

Clermont Estates Historic District was a national historic district located near Germantown in Columbia County, New York.

Dirk Andries Flentrop

His company built the pipe organ in Messiah Lutheran Church in Germantown, Maryland, dedicated on 21 April 1991.

February 2013 nor'easter

In New York, a man was plowing his driveway with a tractor on February 8 in Germantown, when the tractor went off the edge of the road and fell on top of him.

George Atzerodt

He was apprehended at the house of his cousin, Hartman Richter, in Germantown, Maryland.

German Reformed Sanctity Church Parsonage

German Reformed Sanctity Church Parsonage is a historic church parsonage on Maple Avenue in Germantown, Columbia County, New York.

Germantown, Pennsylvania

Germantown Township, Pennsylvania, a defunct township incorporated into Philadelphia

Germantown, Virginia

By the time of the American Revolution the prosperous settlers had all acquired other land and the settlement was defunct.

Lawrence A. Skantze

His initial research and development assignment was as project engineer with the joint Air Force-Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear Powered Airplane program in Germantown, Maryland.

Lilian Vaughan Morgan

After this, she was raised by maternal grandparents with her older sister Edith in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory

From their motherhouse in Germantown, New York, the Carmelite Sisters serve in 18 elder-care facilities around the country, plus one in Ireland.

Menomonie High School

The team went undefeated, with records of 14-0 in 1997 and 2002 beating Germantown and Brookfield Central respectively.

Midland, Virginia

It has Germantown Lake and the archeological sites of Germantown.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington

To manage Mount Olivet and three other cemeteries, in 1978 the archdiocese created and incorporated Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Washington; 25 years later, All Souls Cemetery in Germantown, Maryland became its fifth archdiosesan cemetery.

Sub-Basement

According to the documentary Last Days Here, the title references vocalist Bobby Liebling's life of living in his parents sub-basement in Germantown, Maryland.

The Brethren Church

The first congregation in the New World was organized at Germantown, Pa., in 1723.


Albert Jaegers

The dedication of his statue of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, was delayed until after the end of World War I and it was later removed from view during World War II.

Automated Weather Source

The hardware and software development took place in both Germantown and Abingdon, Maryland.

BlackRock Center for the Arts

The BlackRock Center for the Arts (full name Germantown Cultural Arts Center d.b.a. BlackRock Center for the Arts) is a cultural, visual and performing arts center in Germantown, Maryland.

Charles DeLisi

Commemorating the significance of the Human Genome Project, the DOE installed a bronze plaque outside room F-202 at its Germantown, Maryland facility.

Darrell Awards

They were bestowed at Borders Books & Music Cafe in Germantown, Tennessee -- winners Jack McDevitt for "Eternity Road" (best novel of 1997) and Stephen Climer for "By Any Name of Devil" (best short story of 1997).

George Meade Easby

To celebrate all of this, on July 9, 1936, his parents purchased for him a brand new convertible Packard Super Eight luxury automobile from the nearest Packard dealership (Goldner Brothers) on Germantown Avenue.

Jacob C. Gottschalk

In 1701, he received a letter from the church in Goch, permitting him to migrate to Pennsylvania, where he arrived at Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1702.

Johannes Kelpius

On arrival in Philadelphia (which barely had 500 houses at this time) they moved to Germantown and then to the Wissahickon.

Mall of Memphis

Many of the mall's upscale clientele moved east to Germantown, Collierville, Bartlett and Cordova, making trips to and from the mall longer and less convenient.

Montgomery Community College

Montgomery College, a two-year college in Rockville, Takoma Park/Silver Spring, and Germantown, Maryland

Peter Hardeman Burnett

In 1844, he completed construction of Germantown Road between the Tualatin Valley and what became Portland.

Poplar Level, Louisville

Named for the poplar wood planks that originally made up Poplar Level Road, the main roadway through the neighborhood as it stretched from Germantown to Petersburg, it is bounded by Eastern Parkway to the north, Poplar Level road to the west, Newburg Road to the east, and Interstate 264 to the south.

Quakers in the Abolition Movement

Quaker colonists began questioning slavery in Barbados in the 1670s, but first openly denounced slavery in 1688, when four German Quakers, including Francis Daniel Pastorius, issued a protest from their recently established colony of Germantown, close to Philadelphia in the newly founded American colony of Pennsylvania.

Residence Act

Numerous locations were offered by the states to serve as the nation's capital, including: Kingston, New York; Nottingham Township in New Jersey; Annapolis; Williamsburg, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; Reading, Pennsylvania; Germantown, Pennsylvania; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; New York City; Philadelphia; and Princeton; among others.

Sally Ride

Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally K. Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas, and Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.

Sedgwick Theater

The Sedgwick Theater, located at 7137 Germantown Ave in Philadelphia, is designed in the 1920s style of an Art Deco Movie Palace.

SEPTA Main Line

Later a new alignment was built to Norristown, leaving the old route from North Philadelphia to Germantown as a branch; this is now the Manayunk/Norristown Line.

Teenie Hodges

Born in Germantown, Tennessee, Hodges began playing guitar at age 12 in his father's band, the Germantown Blue Dots, before joining his brothers Leroy and Charles in their group, the Impalas.

Theodore William Richards

Theodore Richards was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to William Trost Richards, a land- and seascape painter, and Anna née Matlack, a poet.

Watchung Outliers

The hills of the New Germantown Outlier are located along the border of Tewksbury Township and Readington Township, New Jersey, approximately seven miles southwest of the southern extent of the Watchungs and about three miles north of Cushetunk Mountain.

WHBQ

WHBQ-FM, a radio station (107.5 FM) licensed to Germantown, Tennessee, United States

Wingohocking Creek

The southerly branch, Wingohocking Creek proper, followed the path taken today by SEPTA's Chestnut Hill East rail line (built by the Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad in 1833 and extended by the successor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in the 1850s) between Sedgwick and Wister stations.