The table below shows the state totals and the top 15 counties for Pennsylvania German population. Berks and Lehigh counties remain the gravitational center of the state’s centuries-old ...

When the first American census was taken in 1790, Pennsylvania's German population was put at 225,000 which amounts to a third of the state's entire population. If we further count those Germans ...

Eastern Pennsylvania is home to beautiful ... Because of their closed population stemming from a small number of German immigrants -- about 200 individuals -- the Amish carry unusual ...