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East Germantown/Pershing

ORIGIONAL NAME OF OUR LITTLE TOWN WAS GEORGETOWN, IT WAS PLATTED ON AUGUST 1ST OF THAT SAME YEAR, BY MR. GEORGE SHRTRIDGE. THE FIRST BUILDING @ THE CORNER OF US HWY 40/MAIN STREET (ALSO KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL ROAD) AND PEARL STREET WAS ERECTED. IT WAS A SINGLE STORY CABIN BUILT BY THE HUNSINGER FAMILY, IN 1832 THE TOWN NAME WAS CHANGED TO GERMANTOWN INDIANA. WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT OUR TOWN NEEDED A POST OFFICE, THE NAME OF OUR TOWN CONFLICTED WITH OTHERS IN THE STATE. AND SO, OUR TOWN NAME WAS ONCE AGAIN CHANGED. IT BECAME EAST GERMANTOWN AND REMAINED UNTIL 1917 WHEN OUR GREAT COUNTRY BECAME INVOLVED IN WWI. AT THAT TIME , MANY RESIDENTS FELT THAT IT WAS UNPATATRIOTIC TO HAVE GERMAN IN THE TOWN NAME. THUS, IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE POST OFFICE WOULD BE NAMED IN THE HORNOR OF GENERAL JOHN J PERSHING. IN THE 1980'S A SIGN WAS ERECTED SAYING EAST GERMANTOWN/PERSHING. NOW HOWEVER, TOWN SIGNS SIMPLY SAY EAST GERMANTOWN AND THE POSTOFFICE SAYS PERSHING.

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