print email comment close Historic Germantown URL: http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/ Description: Material about the history of Germantown, Pennsylvania, founded on October 6, 1683, as the first German settlement in the original thirteen American colonies. Features photos and details about historic buildings (such as the Mennonite meeting house from 1770) and people (such as Louisa May Alcott who was born here and George Washington who fought here and lived here in 1793). From the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. Publisher: Independence Hall Association LII Database Information: Record 22696 created by Maria Brandt on 10/02/2006 Last modification on 10/02/2006 Published: 10/05/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22696