Additional notes on Germantown

Germantown is located in Montgomery County, Maryland.

In the 1830s and 1840s, a large number of German business owners, some of whom were immigrants from Germany and others relocating from Pennsylvania, settled what are now known as Liberty Mill Road and Clopper Road intersect. While most of the local landowners and farmers were English, travelers remembering the accents of the shop-owners called the area Germantown, and the name stuck.

On April 20, 1865, George Atzerodt, a co-conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination was captured in Germantown. He was assigned by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson, but lost his nerve and fled Washington, D.C., on the night of the Lincoln assassination. He was captured at his cousin Hartman Richter's farm in Germantown. Atzerodt was hanged on July 7, 1865 along with Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, and David Herold in Washington, D.C.

Since about 1980, Germantown has experienced great growth, both in townhomes and single-family dwellings, and an urbanized town center has been built.

Population: 55,419

Geographic Size: 10.8 sq miles

County: Montgomery

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