natural environment and selective immigration was an agricultural system which, before the close of the eighteenth century, earned for the county the designation, "Garden of Pennsylvania," a title retained with variations until the present day. Early Lancaster County manufacturing was greatly influenced

, and the labor supply for Lancaster City industry is comprised largely of urbanized members of this group.6 The possession of the Pennsylvania limestone by the Germans is an inter- esting phenomenon. There developed early a tendency to explain the presence of these people upon the best farming lands by

commonly a subordinate part-time or seasona enterprise. The transfer of title to a farm often included the transfer of own ership of one or more mills at the same time. 6 Different milling and other manufacturing enterprises were also commonly associated. As early as 1747 the German Seventh-Day Baptists at

produced implements which varied considerably according to the preference of the purchaser and skill of the maker. There is some evidence, however, of specialization in edge tools in that period. Craftsmen who manufactured the pointed auger or gimlet were found among the Pennsylvania-Germans before the