Colonial Germantown Mennonites

Historians and any readers interested in a accessible history of the Colonial Germantown Mennonites as well as a guide in text and pictures to the many historic sites from that era visitors to Germantown can still explore today.

Leonard Gross, Goshen, Indiana, was Executive Secretary of the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church, editor of Mennonite Historical bulletin, and director of the Mennonite denominational archives and historical research program located at Goshen from 1979-1990. He has written, edited, or translated many works related to the Amish, Hutterites, or Mennonites. He has served on the Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust (earlier the Germantown Mennonite Church Corporation) since 1970.Jan Gleysteen, Goshen, Indiana, has served the Mennonite church for 40 years as artist, writer, editor and traveling lecturer. In 1969 Gleysteen teamed with John L. Ruth on the first of many research trips to document, pictorially, Anabaptist/Mennonite history, life, and thought. For the Germantown Mennonite Tricentennial, 1683-1983, Gleysteen created a series of pen-and-ink illustrations, plus texts, telling the Germantown story. The illustrations are still widely used in books and periodicals.