Address Restricted, Culpepper, Virginia. County/parish: Orange.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 24, 1978. NRIS 78003036.
1 contributing site.
Germanna was a German settlement in the Colony of Virginia, settled in two waves, first in 1714 and then in 1717. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood encouraged the immigration by advertising in Germany for miners to move to Virginia and establish a mining industry in the colony.
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