5 Facts about Germantown

By Emerald Tolliver (TLA)

• Germantown Avenue was an Indian foot trail
• Germantown wasn’t originally apart of Philadelphia (Germantown was merged with Philadelphia around 1689)
• Germantown has approximately 13 historical locations
• Germantown once included Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill
• As of 2013 there are 90,676 people residing in Germantown

By Ms. Jane

Dear Germantown,

Thank you for your fireflies

punctuating church sermons on misty nights in June.

Thank you for your wetland cleaning the water and the air.

Thank you for the tiny blue butterflies of Wissahickon summer.

Thank you for the most adorable children I have ever seen in my life!

Thank you for the library being a Pokéstop!

Thank you for the blue mandala mural and the weeds growing up

through Germantown High while it waits to be something new.

Thank you for the Wyck house, where wisteria was named.

Thank you for folk songs in the Meetinghouse, for candled cold evenings.

Thank you for the corridor of pink petals in the spring.

Thank you for President Obama in Vernon Park eight Octobers ago,

it was a beautiful day, I got sunburned and smitten.

Thank you for cutting down my inner nonsense by at least half.

Thank you for my friend’s daughter’s prom party at the Black Writer’s Museum,

her miracle baby all dressed up.

Thank you for inviting me, thank you for including me,
thank you for cracking me open and letting me start again.



Facts About Germantown by Amir

Germantown holds the house that helped slaves escape slavery.  The name of this house is called the Johnson house. This is one of the underground rail road station. The people who lived in this house were Quakers. They worked with Europeans and freed the slaved. They wanted to abolish slavery so every African American.