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Historic Germantown is Nashville's oldest neighborhood. Immigrants from Germany began to build homes there in the 1840s. [2] The area was established as Germantown in the 1850s. The boundaries of the district are Jefferson Street, third Avenue North, Taylor Street and Eight Avenue North. [1] The area encompasses 18 city blocks. [2]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register ...
Germantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 41,333 at the 2020 census. [5] It was given a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in 2019. [6] Germantown is a suburb of Memphis, bordering it to the east-southeast. Germantown was founded in 1841 by mostly German emigrants.
Westminster Academy is a private, classical Christian school. It was established in 1996 as Memphis’ only JK-12th grade classical Christian school. The school aims to teach children to reason, discern, and apply truth by way of Scripture. The school is a top workplace amongst small businesses in the Memphis area. [1]
Settlement in the Germantown area began, at the invitation of William Penn, in 1683 by Nederlanders and Germans under the leadership of Francis Daniel Pastorius fleeing religious persecution. [2] [4] [5] Colonial Germantown was a leader in religious thought, printing, and education. Important dates in Germantown's early history include: [6]
Seal of Germantown, 1691 Pictures from Old Germantown: the Pastorius family residences are shown on the upper left (c. 1683) and upper right (c. 1715), the center structure is the house and printing business of the Caurs family (ca. 1735), and the bottom structure is the market place (c. 1820).
The first U.S. truffle orchard to successfully produce commercial quantities of culinary-quality black Périgord truffles is located in Chuckey. Tom Michaels, who had written a Ph.D. thesis on truffle cultivation, started cultivating truffles in the area in 2000 after observing that the area's limestone soil was similar to the soil of the Périgord region of France, where black truffles are ...
Houston High School was established in 1989 and is the sole high school of the Germantown Municipal School District (GMSD). Prior to June 2014, HHS was part of the Shelby County Schools system. The GMSD is a family of five schools, Dogwood Elementary (K-5), Farmington Elementary (K-5), Riverdale Elementary (K-8), Houston Middle School (6-8 ...