Luxist Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Germantown, Maryland - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown,_Maryland

   301, 240. FIPS code. 24-32025. GNIS feature ID. 2389836 [2] Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland. With a population of 91,249 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous community in Maryland, after Baltimore and Columbia. [3] [4] [5] Germantown is located approximately 28 miles (45 km ...

3. Colonial Germantown Historic District - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Germantown...

   The Colonial Germantown Historic District is a designated National Historic Landmark District in the Germantown and Mount Airy neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along both sides of Germantown Avenue. This road followed a Native American path from the Delaware River just north of Old City Philadelphia, through Germantown, about 6 miles ...

4. Germantown, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown,_Philadelphia

   Germantown ( German: Deutschstadt) is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Palatine, 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 ...

5. 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688_Germantown_Quaker...

   The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the ...

6. Nashoba Community - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba_Community

   The Nashoba Community was an experimental project of Frances "Fanny" Wright, initiated in 1825 to educate and emancipate slaves. It was located in a 2,000-acre (8 km 2) woodland on the side of present-day Germantown, Tennessee, a Memphis suburb, along the Wolf River. It was a small-scale test of her full-compensation emancipation plan in which ...

7. List of companies based in the Philadelphia area - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in...

   Was renamed Ford Aerospace and sold to Loral in 1990. Another part of the original Philco International moved to Pittsburgh in 1988. Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. Philadelphia. financial. failed. seized by the FDIC and sold to Mellon Financial. Reading Company. Philadelphia.