Germantown is a historic unincorporated rural community in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States.

It is located in and around current-day C. M. Crockett Park, which contains the popular local fishing destination of Germantown Lake.

[2] In 1718 twelve German emigrant families left the employ of Governor Alexander Spotswood and the mining settlement of Germanna for a 1,805-acre (7 km2) parcel of land in modern southern Fauquier County.

Each landowner also donated 10 areas to form a glebe where the first church, parsonage, and school in Fauquier County were constructed.

This is where future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall was born in 1755.