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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 .
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 ...
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]
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
The first bank of the United States was also located here during his administration. Germantown proper, and the adjacent German Township, were incorporated into the City of Philadelphia in 1854 by the Act of Consolidation. Italians began settling Germantown in 1880, and comprised an active and vibrant part of the community. [17]
Little Germany, known in German as Kleindeutschland and Deutschländle and called Dutchtown by contemporary non-Germans, [1] was a German immigrant neighborhood on the Lower East Side and East Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The demography of the neighborhood began to change in the late 19th century, as non-German ...
German Flatts is a town in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 12,263 at the 2020 census down from 13,258 at the 2010 census. [3] [4] The town is in the southern part of Herkimer County, on the south side of the Mohawk River, across from the village of Herkimer. The town includes the villages of Ilion and Mohawk.
German-language advertisement for a German fair at Das Deutsche Haus, in January 1900. In the 19th century, many German immigrants made their home in Indiana. A majority of these immigrants, called Forty-Eighters, relocated to the United States following the failed Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.