GERMANTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the early movers and shakers of Pennsylvania. A German convert to Quakerism, he arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683, a year after William Penn ...

Germantown in Pennsylvania, now a part of Philadelphia, has a rich history and heritage dating back to its founding in 1683. In that year, it was settled by a small group of Quakers and Mennonites who ...

A scene from the Germantown Community Archiving: Let’s Make Histories! kickoff event, held October 29 at the Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library (JEC), a branch of the Free Library of ...

Last week began with the founding of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683 by a group of Dutch Quaker and Mennonite immigrants who had been living in the German villages of Crefeld and Cresheim and who ...