Germantown, Tennessee
Germantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,844 at the 2010 census.
Germantown, Tennessee
The town was incorporated in 1841. The Memphis-Charleston Railroad was built through the community in 1852. Germantown experienced setbacks through the period of the Civil War (1861-1865); the yellow fever epidemics reduced its population to a few hundred.