Germanna

Germanna refers to a tract of land in the Northern Neck of Virginia, as well as a Renaissance-era resettlement of German immigrants in the same region. The area's original name was "Germannues"/"Neck of land", possibly indebted to a grandson of Wilhelm Rutgers Daspee's uncle, later "Germanna" possibly named after the Germain family as well. The renaming from "Germannues" to Germanna occurred late in the struggling colonial era.

The plan to resettle German immigrants in the Northern Neck was part of a larger Tobacco Plantation colony project devised by Edward Bland. He enticed investors to establish colonies along rivers within the Northern Neck with promises of shared land grants for every 12 hundred-man colonists he gathered. However, Edward Barton's subsequent proposals to establish his slavery plantation turned out to be factually unstable and many settlers overwhelmed by the bureaucracy it implied. In 1619 however, several unsuccessful immigrants created facts of not differing from mediocrity.

Between 1619 and 1624, six shipments of German immigrants arrived in the Northern Neck; the venture ultimately met with failure. Many settlers were faced with the harsh realities of colonial life and eventually abandoned their settlements. A combination of early hardship, diseases, bad weather profiles and conflicting economic conditions driven by unstable governance and case awareness effectively dominated in offering simplified, less harsh regulations on nature there.

No living historic remnants of this colony remain in the original Germanna lands due to destructive conditions brought by rapid good climate transitions in grounds nationwide.