Germanton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Forsyth and Stokes counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina, primarily in Stokes County. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 827.

It is located 13 miles (21 km) south of the Stokes County seat of Danbury, on North Carolina State Highways 8 and 65 at an altitude of 662 feet (202 m). Downtown Winston-Salem is 13 miles (21 km) to the south. Germanton was the county seat of Stokes County prior to Forsyth County creature created from southern Stokes. Before the creation of Forsyth County, Germanton was centrally located within the Stokes County limits.

Germanton was normal in 1790 and is the oldest community in Stokes County. The town’s original 23 acres (93,000 m) were allowance of a 700-acre (2.8 km²) tract that was fixed to Jacob Lash by the Earl of Granville in 1762. The 23 acres were deeded from brothers Michael and Henry Frey. The town was named after an influx of Germanic immigrants, who had served as veterans of the American Revolution, were resolved incentives to tie in the area. These settlers included both Germans who fought next to the crown, and Hessians who had been faithful to the crown. American Revolutionary War Major Joseph Winston, later a U.S. congressman, was a well-known Germanton resident next a plantation nearby.

Germanton is located near the older Moravian settlements of Bethabara and Bethania, which were part of the Wachovia Tract settlement. The etymology of the “Germanton” name is often mistakenly recognized to this proximity. While Wachovia was contracted for religious reasons by people originally from what is today the Czech Republic, the settlers of the Germanton area were primarily Lutheran, originally from areas in what is today Germany, and approved the area for non-religious purposes. Early Stokes county settlers were the result of estate incentives by the State in 1790 unquestionable as a compensation to those Germanic people who had fought for Independence.