Shenandoah Germans
Though Scots-Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, English with other various British American settlers and their descendants compose the majority of the population of the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and parts of West Virginia, the regions home to a long-established German-American community dating to the 17th century. The earliest German settlers to Shenandoah, sometimes known as the Shenandoah Deitsch or the Valley Dutch, were Pennsylvania Dutch migrants who traveled from southeastern Pennsylvania.