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During the Revolution, the Battle of Germantown was fought up and down the main street, with muskets firing from house windows.
Today, Germantown is undoubtedly a very urbanized region; however, the historical sites have been very well preserved by the active Historical Society and the National Park Service.
The IHA is a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1942.
The Germantown Academy was built in 1760, and after the battle of Germantown was used by the British as a hospital.
The first school in Germantown was established about 1701, and for the first eighteen years was under the mastership of Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651-1719), theleaderin founding the town, who lived in a house that stood on the site of the present First Methodist Episcopal church, High Street and Main Street.
Germantown was founded in October 1683 by thirteen families from Crefeld, Germany, under the leadership of Francis Daniel Pastorius.