Germantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,844 at the 2010 census. Germantown is a suburb of Memphis, bordering it to the east-southeast. Germantown's economy is dominated by the retail and commercial service sectors; there is no heavy industry in Germantown.

When was Germantown Pennsylvania founded?

The establishment of Germantown as a permanent German settlement in America in 1683 put into place William Penn's bold ideas of religious toleration of different faiths in one colony, bringing Quakers to Pennsylvania together with Mennonites, Dunkards, and other groups that had been unwelcome in England and Continental ...

When did Germantown become a part of Philadelphia?

Incorporated in 1689, Germantown was a separate borough before being annexed by Philadelphia in 1854. Cliveden (1763–67), summer home of Benjamin Chew, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Courtesy Cliveden; photograph, John Chew, Jr.