Germantown, Philadelphia
Germantown, Philadelphia | |
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Neighborhood of Philadelphia | |
Cliveden, one of many historic houses in Germantown | |
Germantown, Philadelphia | |
Coordinates: Coordinates: 40°02′35″N 75°10′52″W / 40.043°N 75.181°W / 40.043; -75.181 | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Philadelphia |
City | Philadelphia |
Founded | October 6, 1683 |
Incorporated | August 12, 1689 |
Consolidated | February 2, 1854 |
Founded by | Francis Daniel Pastorius |
Area [1] | |
• Total | 3.327 sq mi (8.62 km2) |
Elevation [2] | 240 ft (70 m) |
Population (2010)[3] | |
• Total | 75,935 |
• Density | 23,000/sq mi (8,800/km2) |
Demonym(s) | Germantowner |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
ZIP Codes | 19144, 19138 |
Area code(s) | 215 |
Germantown is an area in Northwest Philadelphia. Founded by German Quaker and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854. The area, which is about six miles northwest from the city center, now consists of two neighborhoods: 'Germantown' and 'East Germantown'.
Germantown has played a significant role in American history; it was the birthplace of the American antislavery movement, the site of a Revolutionary War battle, the temporary residence of George Washington, the location of the first bank of the United States, and the residence of many notable politicians, scholars, artists, and social activists.
Today the area remains rich in historic sites and buildings from the colonial era, some of which are open to the public.
Contents
1 Boundaries
2 History and demographics
3 Education
3.1 Primary and secondary schools
3.1.1 Public schools
3.1.2 Charter schools
3.1.3 Private schools
3.2 Higher education
3.3 Other teaching institutions
3.4 Public libraries
4 Transportation
5 Parks and recreation areas
6 Historic sites
6.1 National Historic Landmark Districts
6.2 National Historic Districts
6.3 National Historic Landmarks
6.4 National Register of Historic Places
6.5 Gallery of historic houses and architecture
6.6 Other historic sites
7 In popular culture
8 Notable people
8.1 Image gallery
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Boundaries
Germantown stretches for about two miles along Germantown Avenue northwest from Windrim and Roberts Avenues. Germantown has been consistently bounded on the southwest by Wissahickon Avenue, on the southeast by Roberts Avenue, and on the east by Wister Street and Stenton Avenue,[4] but its northwest border has expanded and contracted over the years. When first incorporated as a borough in 1689, Germantown was separated from the rural Germantown Township by Washington Lane;[5] later, the border was expanded to Carpenter and East Gorgas Lanes;[6] it was then rolled back to Washington Lane in 1846,[4] and remained there until the borough was absorbed into the city of Philadelphia in 1854.
Today, the western part of the former borough is the neighborhood known simply as 'Germantown' (though is sometimes called 'West Germantown') and the eastern part is the neighborhood of 'East Germantown'. While the boundary between the two neighborhoods is not well-defined and has varied over time,[7] these days 'Germantown' usually refers to the part of the former borough that lies west of Germantown Avenue, up through West Johnson Street, and 'East Germantown' to the part that lies east of Germantown Avenue, up through East Upsal Street.[8][9][10]
The neighborhood of Mount Airy lies to the northwest, Ogontz and West Oak Lane to the northeast, Logan to the east, Nicetown–Tioga to the south, and East Falls to the southwest.
The majority of Germantown is covered by the 19144 zip code, but the area north of Chew Avenue falls in the 19138 zip code.
History and demographics
Germantown was founded on October 6, 1683, by German settlers: thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families from Krefeld.[11][12] Today the founding day of Germantown is remembered as German-American Day, a holiday in the United States, observed annually on October 6. On August 12, 1689, William Penn at London signed a charter constituting some of the inhabitants a corporation by the name of "the bailiff, burgesses and commonalty of Germantown, in the county of Philadelphia, in the province of Pennsylvania." Francis Daniel Pastorius was the first bailiff. Jacob Telner, Derick Isacks op den Graeff and his brother Abraham Isacks op den Graeff, Reynier Tyson, and Tennis Coender were burgesses, besides six committeemen. They had authority to hold "the general court of the corporation of Germantowne", to make laws for the government of the settlement, and to hold a court of record. This court went into operation in 1690, and continued its services for sixteen years. Sometimes, to distinguish Germantown from the upper portion of German township, outside the borough, the township portion was called Upper Germantown.
In 1688, five years after its founding, Germantown became the birthplace of the anti-slavery movement in America.[13] Pastorius, Gerret Hendericks, Derick Updegraeff and Abraham Updengraef gathered at Thones Kunders's house and wrote a two-page condemnation of slavery and sent it to the governing bodies of their Quaker church, the Society of Friends. The petition was mainly based upon the Bible's Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Though the Quaker establishment took no immediate action, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was a clear and forceful argument against slavery and initiated the process of banning slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and Pennsylvania (1780).
In 1723, Germantown became the site of the first Church of the Brethren congregation in the New World.[14]
When Philadelphia was occupied by the British during the American Revolutionary War, British units were housed in Germantown. In the Battle of Germantown, on October 4, 1777, the Continental Army attacked this garrison. During the battle, a party of citizens fired on the British troops, as they marched up the avenue, and mortally wounded British Brigadier General Agnew. The Americans withdrew after firing on one another in the confusion of the battle, leading to the determination that the battle resulted in a defeat of the Americans. However, the battle is sometimes considered a victory by Americans. The American loss was 673 and the British loss was 575, but along with the Army's success under Brigadier General Horatio Gates at Saratoga on October 17 when John Burgoyne surrendered, the battle led to the official recognition of the Americans by France, which formed an alliance with the Americans afterward.
During his presidency, George Washington and his family lodged at the Deshler-Morris House in Germantown to escape the city and the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. 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.[15]
The significant changes that occurred in Philadelphia's demographics at the start of the 20th century caused major shifts in Germantown's ethnic makeup as well. When the first wave of the Great Migration brought more than 140,000 African Americans to the city from the South, long-established Philadelphians started to move to the outskirts. During this time, many German, Scots-Irish, and Irish families moved to Germantown.[16]
During the 1940s, a second mass migration of African Americans from the south to Philadelphia occurred. While the majority of middle-class African American newcomers first settled in North Philadelphia, the housing shortages in this area that followed the end of World War II caused later arrivals to move instead to the Northwest. This led to a wave of new housing construction. To meet the housing needs of the growing numbers of African American families moving into southern Germantown, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority allocated $10.6 million for the creation of public housing.[16]
Between 1954 and 1956 Germantown experienced an influx of lower-income African Americans, resulting in a decline in property values and triggering a "white flight" of the majority of white residents to the suburbs.[17] The demographic shift caused a slow but steady decline in central Germantown's upscale shopping district, with the last department store, a J. C. Penney branch, closing in the early 1980s.[18]
The current demographics of Germantown reflects this shift. As of the 2010 US Census, Germantown proper is 77% black, 15% white, 3% non-white Hispanic, and 2% Asian,[3] and East Germantown is 92% black, 3% white, 2% non-white Hispanic, and 2% Asian.[3]
Eugene Stackhouse, a retired former president of the Germantown Historical Society says that the demographic transition of Germantown into a predominantly black neighborhood was the result of the now illegal practice of blockbusting. "It was a great disgrace. Cheap houses would be sold to a black family, then the realtors would go around and tell the neighbors that the blacks are invading", said Stackhouse.[19] The practice was used to trigger panic selling.[18]
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Germantown is zoned to the School District of Philadelphia, as is all of Philadelphia. Public schools located in Germantown include the Anna L. Lingelbach School (K–8), the John B. Kelly School (K–6), the John Wister Elementary School (K–6), the Hill Freedman Middle School (6–8), the Theodore Roosevelt Middle School (7–8), the Fitler Academics Plus School (1–8), and the Martin Luther King High School (9–12). The Robert Fulton Elementary School and Germantown High School, a regional public high school located in Germantown, were both closed in 2013.
Charter schools
Mastery Charter Schools operates the Mastery Charter Pickett Campus (7–12, MCPC) in Germantown.[20] The school opened in August 2007.[21] The charter system headquarters is located at Pickett.[21][22] Germantown Settlement Charter School (5–8), Imani Education Circle Charter school (pre-K to 8), and the Wissahickon Charter School's Awbury Campus (6th–8th) is located in the neighborhood . The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, a private state-chartered school, occupies the former site of Germantown Academy, which moved to Fort Washington, Pennsylvania in 1965.
Private schools
Germantown's private schools include the DePaul Catholic School (K–8), Waldorf School of Philadelphia (PreK-8), the High Street Christian Academy (K–4), the Germantown Islamic School, the Green Tree School (special education, ages 6–21), and two Quaker schools: Germantown Friends School and Greene Street Friends School.
Nearby private schools include Mount Airy's Revival Hill Christian High School (9–12), Blair Christian Academy (PreK–12), Islamic Day School of Philadelphia (PreK–5), Project Learn School (K–8), Classroom on Carpenter Lane (K-2), and Holy Cross School (K–8), as well as Chestnut Hill's Springside School (PreK–12), Chestnut Hill Academy (K–12), and Crefeld School (7–12). The William Penn Charter School (commonly known as Penn Charter), the oldest Quaker school in the world, is located in nearby East Falls.
Higher education
La Salle University is in both Germantown and historic Belfield. Its west campus is centered on the old Germantown Hospital buildings and property, which it purchased in 2007.[23] Other universities and colleges close to Germantown include Drexel University College of Medicine's Queen Lane Medical Campus, Arcadia University, Chestnut Hill College, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Philadelphia University, and Saint Joseph's University.[24]
Other teaching institutions
Settlement Music School, the largest community school of the arts in the United States, operates one of its six branches in Germantown.
Public libraries
Free Library of Philadelphia operates public libraries. The Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library is located in Germantown. The library was given its current name in 2002, after Joseph E. Coleman, a member of the Philadelphia City Council.[25]
Transportation
The first railroad in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, which linked Germantown to a station at 9th and Green Streets in Center City. It opened in 1832, and was initially powered by horses.[26] The inventor Matthias W. Baldwin built his first commissioned steam locomotive for the new railroad. Nicknamed Old Ironsides, it eventually reached a peak speed of 28 mph.[27]
Today two SEPTA Regional Rail lines connect the neighborhood to Center City: the Chestnut Hill West Line with stops at Queen Lane, Chelten Avenue, and Tulpehocken stations; and the Chestnut Hill East Line with stops at Wister, Germantown, and Washington Lane stations.[28]
The neighborhood is also served by bus routes 18, 23 (formerly a trolley line), 26, 53 (formerly a trolley line), 65, H and XH, J, and K.[28]
"Old Ironsides", 1832
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Route 23 trolley on Germantown Avenue, 1985
Parks and recreation areas
Germantown has numerous parks and recreation areas. These include:
Awbury Arboretum, a historic 55-acre arboretum and estate- Carpenter Park
- Clifford Park
- Cliveden Park
- Cloverly Park
- East Germantown Recreation Center
- Fernhill Park
Germantown Cricket Club (private)- Hansberry Garden and Nature Center
- Happy Hollow Playground
- Kelly Playground
- Loudoun Park
- Vernon Park
- Waterview Recreation Center
Wissahickon Valley Park (bordering), a 1400-acre park that is part of the Fairmount Park system.- Wister's Woods Park (bordering)
Historic sites
National Historic Landmark Districts
- Colonial Germantown Historic District
- Rittenhousetown Historic District
National Historic Districts
- Awbury Historic District
Tulpehocken Station Historic District[29]
National Historic Landmarks
Cliveden, the estate of Benjamin Chew, an important site during the Battle of Germantown, open to the public- Germantown Cricket Club
John Johnson House, a site on the Underground Railroad,[30] open to the public
Charles Willson Peale House[31]
Wyck House,[32] open to the public
National Register of Historic Places
Other sites listed separately on the NRHP:
- Alden Park Manor
- Beggarstown School
- Conyngham-Hacker House
- Delmar Apartments
- Deshler-Morris House
- Fitler School
- Germantown Grammar School
- Grumblethorpe
- Howell House
- Loudoun Mansion
- Ebenezer Maxwell House
- Mayfair House
- Thomas Meehan School
- Mennonite Meetinghouse
- Charles Schaeffer School
- Upsala
- Grumblethorpe Tenant House
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown
- William C. Sharpless House
- Smyser and English Pharmacy
- Sally Watson House
- Wyck House
- YMCA of Germantown
Gallery of historic houses and architecture
For a more complete gallery of contributing properties in the Colonial Germantown Historic District see here
Loudoun Mansion, 4650 Germantown Ave.
Grumblethorpe, 5267 Germantown Ave.
Winston Commons, 6620-6624 Germantown Ave
Original Wakefield Presbyterian Church, 4705 Germantown Ave
Market Square Presbyterian Church and Civil War Monument
Howell House, at 5218 Germantown Ave
Wyck House, 6026 Germantown Ave.
Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse, 6119 Germantown Ave.
Other historic sites
- Barron House
- Concord School House
Gilbert Stuart Studio- Green Tree Tavern (Germantown)
Lower Burial Ground (Hood Cemetery)[33]- The Connie Mack House
- The Upper Burial Ground
- Vernon Park
In popular culture
The 1946 book, Bright April, written and illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli, features scenes of 1940s Germantown while addressing the divisive issue of racial prejudice experienced by African Americans. The 2015 novel Loving Day is set in Germantown.
Notable people
Abraham op den Graeff, and wife Trintje(Catharina), one of thirteen Mennonite/Quaker families from Crevelt,(lower Rhein Valley) Germany established Germantown and its surrounding Township six miles northwest of Philadelphia. Signer of first officially recognized "Written Protest of Slavery" in the year 1688. Businessman, Representative in the Provincial Assembly, and served in various positions of Germantown's local government
Louisa May Alcott, noted author of the Little Women series of books[34]
M. K. Asante, filmmaker, professor, rapper, author of Buck
James Barron, naval hero
Samuel Blair, second Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
Anna Richards Brewster, painter
Elaine Brown, Black Panther Party leader
Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1914–1919
Mary Carr, film actress who appeared in 144 films between 1915 and 1956
George Washington Carpenter, scientist
Charlotte Wardle Cardeza (née Drake), RMS Titanic passenger
Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania
Clarence Clark, professional tennis player, winner of the U.S. National Championships
Daniel Clark, Delegate from the Territory of Orleans to the U.S. House of Representatives
Walter Leighton Clark, American businessman, inventor, and artist
Joseph Sill Clark, Sr., tennis player
William M. Colladay, Wisconsin politician
John Conard, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Bill Cosby, comedian, actor, musician, author, educator
Charles Darrow, inventor of the Monopoly game
Marguerite de Angeli, Newbery Award winning writer and illustrator of children's books
Amrit Desai, yogi, disgraced founder of the Kripalu Center
Byron W. Dickson, college football coach- James Dunn, member of the R&B group The Stylistics
George Ege, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Engle, speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Lola Falana, singer, dancer, and actress[35]
Mantle Fielding, architect
Sidney George Fisher, gentleman, author
Isaac Franks, colonel, soldier in the American Revolutionary War[36]
Janet Gaynor, film, stage and television actress and painter
Frederic Gehring, Catholic priest, National Chaplain for the Catholic War Veterans
Henry Gibson, actor
Walter B. Gibson, author best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow
Thomas Godfrey, inventor of the octant
William Newport Goodell, artist, craftsman, and educator
Jacob C. Gottschalk, first Mennonite bishop in America
Abraham op den Graeff, Germantown settler, politician, merchant
Nelson Graves, Philadelphian cricketer
Carolyn Green, former competition swimmer and two-time Pan American Games gold medalist
Albert M. Greenfield, businessman, political activist, philanthropist; lived in Germantown 1920s-1930s[37]
Rufus Harley, jazz musician
Alfred C. Harmer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Ross Granville Harrison, biologist and anatomist
Charles Hoffner, pro golfer, member of first Ryder Cup team
Bernard Hopkins, professional boxer
Marcus Jastrow, renowned Talmudic scholar
Eve Jihan Jeffers, entertainer
Edwin Jellett, writer
Lindley Johnson, Philadelphia architect
Lloyd Jones, Olympic athlete
Florence Kelley, social and political reformer
Khia, rapper, record producer
Florence Kirk, American soprano
Adam Kuhn, physician, professor, and botanist[38]
Maggie Kuhn, activist, founder of the Gray Panthers
Maxine Kumin, poet and author [39]
George Cochran Lambdin, Victorian flower painter
George Landenberger, 23rd Governor of American Samoa
George Lippard, 19th-century novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, labor organizer
Eric Lobron, German chess champion of American descent
James Logan, statesman
Sarah Logan Wister Starr, prominent Philadelphian, humanitarian
John W. Lord, Jr., Pennsylvania State Senator for the 6th district from 1948 to 1951, Philadelphia City Councilman, United States District Judge
Airrion Love, member of the R&B group The Stylistics
G. Love, born Garrett Dutton III, front man of the musical band G. Love & Special Sauce
Alexander Mack, leader of the German Baptists
Connie Mack, the longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history
Abe Manley, sports executive
J. Howard Marshall, wealthy magnate and husband of Anna Nicole Smith
Logan Marshall, author
John Alden Mason, archaeological anthropologist and linguist
Jimmy McGriff, jazz musician
Robert L. McNeil, Jr., developer of Tylenol and chairman of McNeil Laboratories[40]
Thomas Meehan, botanist and author
Thomas Lynch Montgomery, historian and librarian
George T. Morgan former chief engraver at the United States Mint
James K. Morrow, writer
Eleanor Emlen Myers, archaeologist
William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Francis Daniel Pastorius, leader of the Germantown settlement
James DeWolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Christian Frederick Post, Moravian Church missionary
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, illustrator known for her Saturday Evening Post covers
Sun Ra, Jazz musician
Edmund Randolph, the first United States Attorney General
Theodore William Richards, recipient of 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
David Rittenhouse, astronomer, mathematician, first director of the United States Mint
William Rittenhouse, founded the first paper mill in the colonies
Owen J. Roberts, Supreme Court Justice
Ralph J. Roberts, co-founder and former CEO of Comcast
Charley Ross, four-year-old kidnapping victim in 1874
Charles Frederick Schaeffer, Lutheran clergyman
Francis Schaeffer, Christian theologian, especially influential as an apologist
William I. Schaffer, lawyer, Pennsylvania Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice
J. Barney Sherry, silent film actor; appeared in 215 films between 1905 and 1929
William Shippen, Philadelphia physician, civic and educational leader who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress
Benjamin Shoemaker, mayor of Philadelphia
Ron Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action
Frederick Smith, lawyer, Pennsylvania Attorney General and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice
Patti Smith, punk rock singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
Mike Sojourner, professional basketball player
Christopher Sower the elder, printed the first German-language Bible in America
Christopher Sower the younger, clergyman and printer
Christopher Sower III, loyalist printer
Martin Luther Stoever, Lutheran educator and writer
Witmer Stone, ornithologist and botanist
Gilbert Stuart, portrait artist
Walter Stuempfig, Romantic realism artist
Clyde Summers, lawyer and educator who advocated for labor union democracy
Thomas De Lage Sumter, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Frederick Winslow Taylor, engineer, management theorist, and consultant
Meldrick Taylor, professional boxer
Russell Thompkins, Jr., songwriter of the R&B group The Stylistics
Bill Tilden, tennis player
Henry van Dyke, author, educator, and clergyman
George Washington, first president of the United States. Lived in Germantown briefly at the Deshler-Morris House
Grover Washington, Jr., saxophonist
Ora Washington, professional tennis player
William Walter Webb, Episcopal bishop
John Wister, wealthy merchant, Civil War ironmaster[38]
Langhorne Wister, Civil War brevet brigadier general
Owen Wister, author
Sally Wister, Philadelphia campaign diarist
Jeremiah Wright, Black theology pastor who married Barack and Michelle Obama
John Zacherle, television host, radio personality and voice actor
Image gallery
Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Governor of Pennsylvania
Bill Cosby, comedian, actor, musician, author, educator
Connie Mack
Theodore William Richards, first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Patti Smith, musician and visual artist
Jeremiah Wright, pastor
See also
- German American
- German-American Day
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Germantown, Philadelphia. |
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- Art by Joseph Ropes (1812–1885), Scene in Germantown, Pa., 1874
- Art by William Britton, Market Square, Germantown, c. 1820
- Atlas of the Late Borough of Germantown, 22nd Ward, City of Philadelphia, 1871
- Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683–1854
- Clickable map of Historic Germantown (Independence Hall Association)
- Germantown Historical Society
Germantown general court records, 1691–1701; includes land disputes, apprenticeships, sales of goods, personal matters, etc.- History of Old Germantown (1907), online version
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