Where to Find Germans in America

South Carolina German Emigrants

Search the following counties for German names

James Island, a Dutch settlement of Lutherans. (Charleston).

Charleston

South Carolina Counties of German Settlements

Barnwell

Fairfield

Edgefield

Lexington - 1737 Germans of Saxe-Gotha (now Lexington County)

Newberry

Richland

North Carolina Counties of German Settlements

Anson

Craven - New Bern settlement.

Cabarrus

Forsyth - Moravians (1747). The Wachovia tract was in 1753.

Virginia’s Major German Settlement

Shenandoah Valley - late 1700s