Virginia's first German colony
By: by Elizabeth Chapman Denny Vann and Margaret Collins Denny Dixon.
Contributors: Dixon, Margaret Collins Denny, b. 1882.
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Germans -- Virginia.; Germanna (Va.); Germantown (Va.)
Description: Book gives a brief history of Germanna and Germantown. Germanna was established in Orange County in 1714 by colonists from the Nassau-Siegen, Germany. It ceased to exist by the late 1730's. Many of the colonists left Germanna and started Germantown by 1719 in Fauquier County. Germantown ceased to exist by the late 1700's.
Notes: Includes bibliography.