About Germantown, Tennessee

Germantown is a city of 41,333 people in Shelby County, just east of Memphis. It grew up where the old Chickasaw Trace crossed high ground, a ridge with the Wolf River on one side and Nonconnah Creek on the other. Settlers began coming around 1825, and by 1830 the place had its first store.

People called the settlement Pea Ridge in 1833. The next year surveyor N. T. German laid out town lots, and in 1836 the town took the name Germantown, which also suited the German families settling nearby. It was incorporated in 1841, and the Memphis and Charleston line came through in 1852. In the decades after World War II, the town of about 400 people swelled past 40,000.

“Germantown, on the M. & C. Railroad, which now has a population of about two hundred, is as old as Raleigh, and was so named because of the large numbers of Germans who settled in the vicinity.”
History of Memphis and Shelby County, 1888
  • Nashoba PlantationBetween 1825 and 1830, Frances Wright set up Nashoba Plantation here. She meant it as a utopian community where freed slaves would get an education and learn a trade.
  • 250 soldiers and a fortDuring the Civil War, 250 Union soldiers built an earthen fort here to guard the railroad. Replica howitzers now mark Fort Germantown on Honey Tree Drive, off Poplar Pike. The war and the yellow fever epidemics left only a few hundred people in town, but churches were rebuilt, schools went up, and by the turn of the century people were coming back.
  • Neshoba in World War IAnti-German feeling ran high across the country during World War I, so the town briefly called itself Neshoba, a Chickasaw word meaning wolf. The change did not last, and the Germantown name stayed.
  • A depot from 1868Old Germantown grew up around the railroad depot on Germantown Road, which settlers picked for its high ground. The original depot of 1868 was replaced by a copy in 1948, and the building now houses the Germantown Train Museum.

Find your street

Names on the Germantown map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Germantown City Hall
  • Forest Hill
  • Cameron Brown Park
  • Greenlawn

Streets and roads271

  • Poplar Avenue
  • South Germantown Road
  • West Street
  • Devonshire Way
  • New Riverdale Road
  • Prestwick Drive
  • Beaverwood Drive
  • Wolf River Boulevard
  • Poplar Pike
  • Farmington Boulevard
  • Forest Hill Irene Road
  • Old Poplar Pike
  • Dogwood Road
  • Kimbrough Road
  • Riverdale Road
  • Neshoba Road
  • Johnson Road
  • Winchester Road
  • Hacks Cross Road
  • Exeter Road
  • McVay Road
  • Brierbrook Road
  • Stout Road
  • Poplar Estates Parkway
  • Brookside Drive
  • Miller Farms Road
  • Allenby Road
  • Fox Hill Circle South
  • Cross Village Drive
  • Kilbirnie Drive
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  • Cordova Road
  • Crestwyn Hills Drive
  • Cross Country Drive
  • Calkins Road
  • Oakleigh Lane
  • Eastern Avenue
  • Spring Hollow Lane
  • Winners Circle
  • Windy Oaks Drive
  • Cordes Road
  • Bedford Lane
  • Howard Road
  • Great Oaks Road
  • Corsica Drive
  • Brachton Avenue
  • Thorncroft Drive
  • Fox Hill Circle East
  • Fox Hill Circle North
  • Corbin Road
  • Honey Tree Drive
  • Turpins Glen Drive
  • Crestwyn Drive
  • Pine Valley Lane
  • Farindon Drive
  • Old Mill Road
  • Cornwall Street
  • West Glenalden Drive
  • Mimosa Drive
  • Cross Ridge Drive
  • Hollow Creek Road
  • Cairn Ridge Drive
  • Forest Hill Lane
  • Ashmont Drive
  • Longwood Lane
  • Oak Hill Road
  • Gotten Way
  • Farmoor Road
  • Winding Way
  • Cross Pike Drive
  • Doe Meadow Drive
  • Woodlane Drive
  • Forest Downs
  • Sunset Road
  • Farmingdale Road
  • Forest Bend Court
  • Scruggs Drive
  • Claiborne Drive
  • Dovie Lane
  • Carnton Drive
  • Waterleaf Drive
  • Dogwood Creek Drive
  • Allen Court Drive
  • Grovecrest Road
  • Deep Valley Drive
  • Scarlet Road
  • Hickory Glen Drive
  • Hunters Forest Drive
  • Yester Oaks Drive
  • Moore Road
  • Ole Pike Drive
  • Elm Leaf Drive
  • Sonning Drive
  • Lennox Drive
  • Groveway Drive
  • Bobo Road
  • Knoll Lane
  • Wheatland Drive
  • Arthur Road
  • North Street
  • Tuscany Way
  • Birchton Drive
  • Leesburg Drive
  • Old Elm Lane
  • Tagg Drive
  • Drury Lane
  • Beekman Place
  • Blair Lane
  • Bellville Drive
  • Jenna Road
  • Glenbar Drive
  • Cielo Drive
  • Hollow Fork Road
  • Dogwood Road South
  • Somerset Lane
  • East Churchill Downs
  • Southern Avenue
  • Kimbrough Woods Place
  • Foster Ridge Road
  • Willey Road
  • Wood Creek Drive
  • Dogwood Estates Drive
  • Kenney Drive
  • South Spring Hollow Lane
  • Pepper Bush Lane
  • Newfields Road
  • Meadow Glen Drive
  • Carters Grove Lane
  • Circle Gate Drive
  • Cordie Lee Lane
  • Sandy Creek Drive
  • Holly Hill Drive
  • Holly Spring Drive
  • East Glenalden Drive
  • Woodside Drive
  • Dogwood Trail Drive
  • Stratfield Drive
  • Malabar Drive
  • Fox Creek Drive
  • East Bridge Drive
  • Golden Fields Drive
  • Centre Oak Way
  • Kirby Parkway
  • Laurinburg Circle
  • Mallard Lane
  • Riverwood Street
  • Spring Meade Lane
  • River Valley Drive
  • Wolf Bend Road
  • Cedar Dale Drive
  • Birchtree Drive
  • Mont Blanc Drive
  • Windstone Way
  • Melanie Smith Lane
  • Grove Lake Court
  • Kimbrook Drive
  • Maple Grove Drive
  • Riverchase Drive
  • Preakness Place
  • River Bend Drive
  • Rocky Hollow Road
  • Tamerlane Lane
  • Fox Hill Drive
  • Country Road
  • Belfort Drive
  • Forest Estates Cv
  • Ivy Leaf Drive
  • Crestridge Road
  • Grove Forest Cv
  • Ednam Cv
  • Gwynn Hollow Cv
  • Edwards Mill Road
  • Wicklow Way
  • Lipsey Cv
  • Farrah Lane
  • Gallery Court
  • Echo Lake Cv
  • Dickens Cv
  • Dove Field
  • Terrene Lane
  • Gayle Lane
  • Rye Road
  • Anns Lane
  • Alder Branch Lane
  • Claiborne Farm Drive
  • Cedarwood Drive
  • Wickersham Lane
  • Keasler Circle East
  • Poplar Grove Lane
  • Pine Needle Drive
  • River Reach Road
  • Cranbrook Drive
  • Grovelawn Cv East
  • Winding Oak Way
  • Tyndale Drive
  • Woodridge Lane
  • Forest Hill Way
  • Village Shops Drive
  • Manor Woods Court
  • Willinghurst Drive
  • Gwynnbrook Cv
  • Park Ridge Drive
  • Boulinwood Lane
  • Wolf Park Drive
  • Grove Trail Lane
  • Romano Way East
  • Pete Mitchell Road
  • Bridge Forest Drive
  • Hobbits Glen Drive
  • Woodford Lane
  • Business Drive
  • Pinnacle Creek Drive
  • Redfield Drive
  • Pike Wood Drive
  • Telluride Cv
  • Surrey Lane
  • Monte Carlo Drive
  • Grove Park Cv
  • McVay Cv
  • Zurich Drive
  • Mill Run
  • Rico Cv
  • Wetherby Drive
  • Apple Valley Road
  • Oak Run Drive
  • Deerfield Lane
  • Radford Ridge Road
  • Hunters Run Drive
  • Birnam Wood Drive
  • Parker Circle
  • Keasler Circle West
  • Whispering Pines Drive
  • On the Hill
  • Donnington Drive
  • Allenby Lakes Drive
  • Dogwood Oaks Drive
  • Wheatley Drive
  • Wentworth Lane
  • Brandemere Drive
  • Forest Hill-Irene Cv
  • Coachmans Drive
  • Hollybrook Lane South
  • Meadow Run
  • Ingleside Farm South
  • Cane Creek Drive
  • Winding Creek Drive
  • Old Plantation Cv
  • Sandpoint Drive
  • Birch Park Lane
  • Billy Cross Drive
  • West Arden Oaks Drive
  • Myrtle Bend Drive
  • Windstone Cv
  • Forest River Lane
  • Goodview Drive
  • Weston Pass
  • Burfordi Lane
  • Wellsley Drive
  • Oak Manor Drive
  • Savannah Way South
  • Chelsea Park Drive
  • Night Shade Drive
  • Charstone Drive
  • Crestwyn Hills Cv
  • Second Street
  • Bekah Road
  • Belle Fleurs Cv
  • Hazelton Drive
  • River Park Drive
  • Fox Ridge Road
  • Burrows Farm Cv
  • Panoha Drive

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