Girard College

Garid College, Philadelphia

City Hall, Philadelphia

German Society of Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania German Broadside cover

Pastel Baskets of Blooms Applique Amish Quilt 102x113

Amish Quilt

Book cover image

 

Link to MasquelierOnline.com

 



Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Dutch, are not Dutsch, why the name?

The Pennsylvania German, short

William Penn, after whom the state was named

 

 Germantown, Pennsylvania

 

Museum

The German Society of Pennsylvanisa

 

Gemantown Historical Society

The Continental Congress meets a German Town

The Amish

 

The Schwenkfelders, a sect

 

Mennonite Heritage Center

 Declaration of Independence, first printed in German

 

Germans protested Slavery as early as 1688

one opened, scroll down the page

 

The Sauer Bible first printed book in a European Language

 

Lutheran Chruches in Philadelphia

             

Hessian Soldiers during the Revolutionary War

The Hessians from Hanau

 

Friedrich von Steuben, General for Washington

Steuben wrote the Drill Manuel

Washington’s Body guards were German

 

Christopher Ludwig, Baker during the Revolutionary War

 

Molly Pitcher,

 

Colonial Architecture

 

Covered Wagen

 

Ground Hog Day

 

Ephrata Cloister,

 

Boehler, Peter, Moravian Bishop

 

Melchior Muehlenberg, father of American Lutheranism

 

Thomas U.Walters, Architect of the Capitol Dome

and chief assistant at the Philadelphia City Hall

 

Heinz Catsup

Frances Daniel Postorius, Leader of first settlers

Adam Kuhn, Member of Penn's first Medical Faculty

William Rittenhaus, started first Papermill in America

Sowr, Christopher, Printed first Book in Europian Language

The Upper German Town, Philadelphia

The Lower German Town, Philadelphia

The Pacific Saengerbund visits Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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