Tamara, by the 1740s, tons of German immigrants were making their way from
the port in Philadelphia, west to the head of the Shenandoah Valley, and
then south as far as Salisbury, NC. That is how those pre-Revolutionary War
towns in the Shenandoah were settled. You live in one of them! Look i
>From the Library of Congress website
1790 - By this date as many as 100,000 Germans may have immigrated to
America; they and their descendants made up an estimated 8.6 percent of the
population of the United States; in Pennsylvania they accounted for 33 percent
of
the population; in Maryla
