Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Germantown was a town in Pennsylvania and is today primarily a neighborhood in Philadelphia, about six miles northwest from the center of the city. It is the location of the native American (Delaware, or Lenni-Lenape tribe) village of Shackamaxon, where William Penn signed a treaty with the natives. The neighborhood has been fully built up as a part of an urban city, but is rich in historic sites and buildings that have been preserved. Many of these are open to the public. Germantown stretches for about two miles along Germantown Avenue northwest from Windrim Avenue. The next neighborhood to the northwest, Mount Airy, starts around Johnson Street, though there is no universally recognized exact boundary.

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Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - Native American - Lenni-Lenape - Shackamaxon - William Penn - Mount Airy

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