Friedrichsdorf, a town in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, on the southern slope of the Taunus, 3 miles NE. of Homburg. It was founded in 1687 by thirty-two Huguenot families, and its 1200 inhabitants still speak French.
Friedrichsdorf
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 2
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