Germantown, Maryland For other places with the same name, see Germantown, Maryland .
Germantown, Maryland From top to bottom, clockwise: Downtown Germantown in November 2007, viewed from the intersection of Maryland Route 118 and Wisteria Drive, the Maryland Soccer - Plex in May 2015, Downtown Germantown in January 2006, and Downtown Germantown in November 2007.
Location of Germantown in Montgomery County and the U.S.
Location of Germantown in Montgomery County and the U.S.
Location of Germantown in the U.S.
Location of Germantown in the U.S.
Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Enumeration Bureau estimates, Germantown is the third most crowded place in Maryland, after the town/city of Baltimore, and the census-designated place of Columbia, Maryland.
If Germantown were to incorporate as a city, it would turn into the second biggest incorporated town/city in Maryland, after Baltimore. Germantown is positioned approximately 25 30 miles (40 48 km) outside of the U.S.
The initial plan for Germantown divided the region into a downtown and six town villages: Gunners Lake Village, Kingsview Village, Churchill Village, Middlebrook Village, Clopper's Mill Village, and Neelsville Village. The Churchill Town Sector at the corner of Maryland Route 118 and Middlebrook Road most closely resembles the downtown or center of Germantown because of the locale of the Upcounty Regional Services Center, the Germantown Public Library, the Black Rock Arts Center, the Regal Germantown Stadium 14, and pedestrian shopping that features an array of restaurants.
Three exits to Interstate 270 are less than one mile away, the Maryland Area Regional Commuter train is inside walking distance, and the Germantown Transit Center that provides Ride On shuttle service to the Shady Grove station of the Washington Metro's Red Line.
Germantown has the assigned ZIP codes of 20874 and 20876 for bringy and 20875 for postal service boxes.
It is the most crowded Germantown in Maryland and is the only "Germantown, Maryland" that is recognized by the United States Postal Service, although there are others: one in Anne Arundel County, one in Baltimore County, and one in Worcester County. Christian Commission at Germantown in September 1863.
The intersection of Maryland Route 118 and Middlebrook Road in downtown Germantown in January 2008.
A Germantown Giant Food store in September 2013.
A Germantown Shoppers Food & Pharmacy in September 2013.
A Germantown Best Buy store in October 2014, which opened in 2002.
Germantown did not have a enhance school until after the end of the American Civil War.
In 1868, a one-room schoolhouse was assembled on Maryland Route 118, near Black Rock Road, which hosted kids from both Germantown and neighboring Darnestown.
Another, newer school was constructed in 1910, on what is now the site of Germantown Elementary School.
Although it avoided much of the physical destruction that ravaged other metros/cities in the region, the American Civil War was still a cause of resentment and division among inhabitants of Germantown.
Many Germantown inhabitants were against standardized and had sons fighting for the Union Army.
As a result, many citizens in Germantown, who were once on friendly terms with each other, made an accomplishment not to interact with each other, such as switching churches, or incessanting a store or foundry miles away from the ones they would normally do company with. Occasionally, these soldiers would come to Germantown and incessant the stores there.
Throughout the course of the war, Confederate raiders would often come through the Germantown area.
Local farmers in the Germantown region lost horses and other livestock to both Union and Confederate armies. Electricity was brought into Liberty Mill and also served the homes and businesses nearby, making Germantown the first region in the northern portion of Montgomery County to receive electricity. "Feed the Liberty Way" was used as a slogan for Liberty Mill which, with eight silos, became the second biggest mill in all of Maryland, supplying flour to the United States Army amid World War II.
To Germantown, which was considered far enough from the town/city to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. The facility now operates as an administration complex for the U.S.
Marshall Davis owned a farm positioned where Interstate 270 and Germantown Road intersect today. After Interstate 270 divided his farm in two, Davis decided to sell the last of his territory to the International Development Corporation for about $1,300 per acre in 1955. Fairchild-Hiller Corporation bought the territory for about $4,000 per acre in 1964, and it assembled an industrialized park on the territory four years later. Harry Unglesee and his family sold their farm near Hoyles Mill Road for less than $1,000 per acre in 1959. Other farmers soon sold their territory to developers and speculators as well. The Germantown Master Plan was adopted in 1967. The plan for the 17-square-mile (44 km2) region included a dense central downtown region and less dense evolution encircling it. In 1974, the Montgomery County Council allowed an amended plan written by the Montgomery County Planning Board. The amended plan encompassed a downtown region and six separate villages, each comprising lesser neighborhoods with schools, shopping areas, and enhance facilities. The amended plan also encompassed the assembly of a third ground for Montgomery College near the downtown area. During the 1970s, Wernher von Braun, a German rocket scientist amid World War II, worked for the aerospace business Fairchild Industries, which had offices in Germantown, as its Vice President for Engineering and Development.
The Germantown Campus of Montgomery College opened on October 21, 1978.
Since the early 1980s, Germantown has experienced rapid economic and populace growth, both in the form of townhouses and single-family dwellings, and an urbanized "town center" has been built.
Germantown was the quickest burgeoning zip code in the Washington, D.C.
In 2000, the Upcounty Regional Services Center (now the Sidney Kramer Upcounty Regional Services Center) opened in Germantown, and a 16,000 square feet section of the first floor was home to the Germantown Public Library for a several years. In 2000 the Maryland Soccer - Plex opened in Germantown.
In March 2001, Germantown's only movie theater, the Sony 6, opened in the 1980s, positioned at the Germantown Commons Shopping Center, closed down as part of a closure of 112 movie theaters athwart the United States by Loews Cineplex, leaving Germantown without a movie theater of its own.
Over a year later, on May 3, 2002, the Hoyts Cinema 14, now the Regal Germantown Stadium 14, opened, and Germantown now had its own movie theater once again. A DSW footwear retail store now sits on the site of the former Sony 6 theater.
In June 2002, it was announced that a Staples and Best Buy store would open at Germantown's Milestone Shopping Center later that fall.
In 2007, at a cost of 19 million dollars, the Germantown Public Library moved from the Upcounty Regional Services Center to its current location, at a separate 44,193 square foot facility at the close-by Germantown Town Center. In 2000, Germantown had a populace of 55,419, as stated to the 2000 United States Census.
Ten years later, at the time of the 2010 United States Census, Germantown had experienced a 55.9% expansion in population, burgeoning from 55,419 to 86,395.
On August 14, 2011, a 7-Eleven convenience store in downtown Germantown fell victim to a flash mob robbery, in which nearly forty citizens walked into the store, grabbed merchandise, and later fled with the stolen goods, all without paying.
On September 29, 2013, the Upcounty Regional Services Center in Germantown was retitled as the Sidney Kramer Upcounty Regional Services Center, after Sidney Kramer, the Montgomery County executive from 1986 to 1990. Even with its size, Germantown has never been incorporated formally as a town or a city.
Department of Energy has its command posts for the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in Germantown.
Department of Energy building in Germantown because of fears of a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S.
At the time, Germantown was believed to be far enough from Washington, D.C.
Germantown is positioned approximately 428 feet above sea level, at 39 11 N 77 16 W.
Enumeration Bureau, Germantown had a populace of 90,676.
The median income for a homehold in Germantown was $76,061 as of a 2010 estimate by the website, City-Data. 6.5% of the populace and 3.5% of families were below the poverty line.
Population by race in Germantown, Maryland (2010) Public schools in Germantown are part of the Montgomery County Public Schools system.
Elementary schools: Cedar Grove Elementary School, Clopper Mill Elementary School, Fox Chapel Elementary School, Germantown Elementary School, Great Seneca Creek Elementary School, Captain James E.
Montgomery College, the biggest higher education institution in Montgomery County, has a ground in Germantown.
Germantown is bisected by Interstate 270 and has a station on the MARC train commuter service's Brunswick Line, which operates over CSX's Metropolitan Subdivision.
The Montgomery County enhance transit bus system, Ride On, serves Germantown with approximately 20 bus routes and operates a primary transit core in Germantown, known as the Germantown Transit Center.
Also, a light rail fitness (the Corridor Cities Transitway) is under evaluation which would, when completed, connect the terminal of the Washington Metro Red Line at Shady Grove Station near Gaithersburg to Germantown and continue on northward to Clarksburg.
Sailors from the United States Navy Band perform at the Black - Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland, on August 1, 2009.
Sailors from the United States Navy Band perform at the Black - Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland, on August 1, 2009.
The Black - Rock Center for the Arts is positioned in the downtown Germantown, at the Germantown Town Center.
The Black - Rock Center for the Arts also sponsors the Germantown Oktoberfest, an annual festival held every year in the fall, which includes various genres of music, including traditional German folk, modern and pop.
The Maryland Soccer - Plex sports complex is positioned in Germantown.
The Germantown Historical Society (GHS) was formed in 1990 as a non-profit organization with a mission to educate the enhance about small-town history and preserve small-town historic sites.
The GHS office and future exhibition is positioned in the historic Germantown Bank (1922) at 19330 Mateny Hill Road, athwart from the MARC barns station.
The GHS offers lectures on small-town history and has traveling exhibits about Germantown.
Germantown is served by a news and knowledge website titled Germantown Pulse. Germantown veterans are served by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, American Legion Post 295. American Legion Post 295 sponsors Cub Scout Pack 436, a Venturing Crew and is establishing a Sea Scout Ship.
Germantown is featured in the 2008 video game, Fallout 3, where the town has been finished by a nuclear war and one of its police stations later used as a mutant-run prison camp. Walter Perry Johnson, a experienced baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators, lived on a dairy farm in Germantown with his mother and children, from 1935, to his death in 1946. "Germantown Looking to Incorporate: Area Would Be County's Largest Municipality".
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Germantown Historical Society.
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Germantown Historical Society.
Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
There was no enhance school in Germantown until after the Civil War.
118 near Blackrock Road that served the kids of both Germantown and Darnestown.
In 1883 a larger one-room school was assembled closer to Clopper Road to teach the kids of Germantown.
Another new school was assembled in 1910 on the present site of Germantown Elementary school.
Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
The Civil War took a terrible toll on Germantown, not because there was any actual fighting here, but because of the animosities between neighbors that it created.
Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
In the late summer and fall of 1861 there were more than 20,000 Union soldiers camped to the west of Germantown in the Darnestown and Poolesville areas.
Sometimes these soldiers would come to the stores in Germantown.
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"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
"George Atzerodt: The Reluctant Assassin," The Montgomery County Story, Montgomery County Historical Society, Vol.58 No.1, summer 2015 Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
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Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
"Once-Rural Germantown Growing Up".
"Germantown Master Plan Boasts a Time Schedule".
Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
Germantown Historical Society.
"Germantown's History, A Brief Overview".
Germantown Historical Society.
For a while the old and the new different as employees of the Atomic Energy Commission (now the Department of Energy) came to the old Germantown store for lunch and Mr.
Montgomery College, Germantown Campus, opened October 21, 1978, with two buildings, 1,200 students, and a faculty of 24.
"Germantown: Zip Code Seeking Identity; Montgomery Community's Dream Is Sidetracked by Economics".
"Germantown center retitled for former county executive: Ceremony to be held Sept.
Then & Now: Around Germantown.
Until recent years, Germantown book lovers went to the library in Gaithersburg or patronized the weekly bookmobile.
In 2007, the Germantown Public Library opened at a cost of $19 million.
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"Germantown Named Second-most Diverse City in the Country".
Germantown is not an incorporated town/city but is administered by the Montgomery County government.
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"Germantown musician performs at modern hall of fame".
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