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Germantown, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 862
Housing Units (2000): 408
Land area (2000): 2.674223 sq. miles (6.926205 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.015758 sq. miles (0.040812 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.689981 sq. miles (6.967017 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28761
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.135865 N, 73.887886 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12526
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Germantown, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 4884
Housing Units (2000): 1994
Land area (2000): 3.588058 sq. miles (9.293026 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.588058 sq. miles (9.293026 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29932
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.627133 N, 84.365951 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45327
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Germantown, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1118
Housing Units (2000): 459
Land area (2000): 0.793572 sq. miles (2.055343 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.793572 sq. miles (2.055343 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29041
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.554180 N, 89.539315 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62245
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Germantown, TN -- U.S. city in Tennessee
Population (2000): 37348
Housing Units (2000): 13676
Land area (2000): 17.582996 sq. miles (45.539749 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033961 sq. miles (0.087958 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 17.616957 sq. miles (45.627707 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28960
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.089023 N, 89.793997 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38138 38139
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Germantown, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 190
Housing Units (2000): 85
Land area (2000): 0.270078 sq. miles (0.699499 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.270078 sq. miles (0.699499 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30718
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.654693 N, 83.963397 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 41044
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Germantown, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 55419
Housing Units (2000): 21568
Land area (2000): 10.773523 sq. miles (27.903296 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.052520 sq. miles (0.136027 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.826043 sq. miles (28.039323 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32025
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.178229 N, 77.261693 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20876
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Germantown, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 18260
Housing Units (2000): 7075
Land area (2000): 34.421065 sq. miles (89.150146 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.038404 sq. miles (0.099465 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 34.459469 sq. miles (89.249611 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28875
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.223206 N, 88.120433 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53022
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Germantown or German Town may refer to:

Germantown (Quincy, Massachusetts)

Germantown is a primarily residential neighborhood in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. The neighborhood is located on a peninsula surrounded by Town River Bay on the west and Rock Island Cove on the east. This peninsula was known since the 1640s as “Shed's Neck”.

Palmer Street, the main thoroughfare of the neighborhood, was named for General Joseph Palmer. In 1752, Palmer and Richard Cranch, brother-in-law of John Adams and father of American jurist William Cranch, were held by tenure of lease by a company interested in German immigration to create a planned manufacturing community. The land was to be settled in the 1750s by a group of glassmakers and weavers from Germany. The planned community had failed by 1760, but the name has remained.

By the late 18th century, ship building became the major industry because of the ideal location of the neighborhood. In 1861, a ferry service was established between Germantown and Quincy Point.

The tallest building in the neighborhood is the seven-story O'Brien Towers. Most children in Germantown go to Snug Harbor for elementary school, Broad Meadows for middle school, and Quincy High for high school. Snug Harbor is the only school actually within the neighborhood. The neighborhood has a small general store (Palmer Street Store, also known as Lesters). In 2007, the city opened the Germantown Neighborhood Center in the former St. Boniface Church for use in a variety of neighborhood educational and community functions.

Usage examples of "germantown".

As aide-de-camp to Lord Sterling, with the rank of major, he served in the campaign of 1777 and 1778, and distinguished himself in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.

Syracuse, Saratoga Springs, Utica, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Newburg, Poughkeepsie, Sing Sing, Barrytown, Tarrytown, Philadelphia, Germantown, Ashebourne, Reading, Cheltenham and many others.

James Lovell, chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, for example, wrote to Gates on November 27, We want you at different places but we want you most near Germantown.

There was one other meetinghouse--a much smaller, more recent Anglican church--a school-house, gristmill, village store, blacksmith shop, granite quarry, a half dozen or more taverns and, in a section called Germantown, Colonel Quincy's glass factory.

But I did run across a mention of them in a dispatch log from the Germantown rail yard where there was a switch of locomotives.

I was lucky and interviewed Sam Harding, the station agent who was on duty the night it happened, a few months before he died at a rest home in Germantown.