Germantown is an unincorporated but urbanized census-designated place in MontgomeryCounty, Maryland in the United States.
It is the only "Germantown, Maryland" recognized by the United States Postal Service, although there are technically three others, one each in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, and Worcester County.
Germantown sits a short distance from Interstate 270 and is a stop on the MARC train commuter service's Brunswick Line, which operates over CSX's Metropolitan Subdivision.
MontgomeryCounty is a suburban county located in the U.S. state of Maryland north of Washington, D.C. It is the most populous jurisdiction in Maryland and one of the most affluent in the nation.
MontgomeryCounty was formed in 1776 by the splitting of Frederick County.
MontgomeryCounty was important in the abolitionist movement, with slave Josiah Henson, who wrote about his experiences in a memoir which became the basis for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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