Germantown, MD Summer Camps

About Germantown, MD

Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County , Maryland in the United States. It is the third most populous place in Maryland , with a population of 86,395 as of 2010. If it were to incorporate along CDP boundaries, it would become the second largest incorporated city in Maryland. It is located approximately 25 miles outside of Washington DC and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area . As a non incorporated region with no mayor or town council, Germantown is, however, divided up into six town sectors, or "villages": Churchill Village, Gunners Lake Village, Clopper's Mill Village, Kingsview Village, Middlebrook Village, and Neelsville Village The Churchill Town Sector at the corner of Route 118 and Middlebrook Road most closely resembles the center of Germantown, because of the location of the Up County Government Center, the library, the Black Rock Arts Center, the multiplex cinema, and the pedestrian shopping that features an array of restaurants. Three exits to I-270 are less than one mile away, the MARC train is walking distance, and the Germantown Transit Center that provides Ride On shuttle service to the Shady Grove red line. Germantown has the assigned ZIP codes of 20874 and 20876 for delivery and 20875 for post office boxes . It is the only "Germantown, Maryland" recognized by the United States Postal Service , even though there technically are three others: one in Anne Arundel County , one in Baltimore County , and one in Worcester County .

History of Germantown, MD

History In the 1830s and 1840s, the central business area was focused around the intersection of Liberty Mill Road and Clopper Road . Many of the business owners seemed to be German . Despite the fact that 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.

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