Tag: Palatines
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Palatines on the Map
If you have visited Clermont, you may have noticed if you plugged our address into your GPS that we are listed as being in the town of Germantown. We’re not, we’re in the town of Clermont but it’s a whole thing with the post office. Anyway, Germantown is named after the German Palatines who were…
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Palatines in the News
In 1693 Palatine Paulus Küster and his wife Gertrude arrived in America from the Rhineland in what is now Germany. Like the thousands of Palatines who would follow them to New York and Pennsylvania they were fleeing the wars that had ravaged their land for years. A little over 150 years later one of their…
Clermont State Historic Site 