indebted to a number of persons and sources for aid in gathering the material for this study. Mr. M. Luther �Heisey and Miss Elizabeth C. Kieffer, of the Lancaster County Historical Society, have been especially helpful, Miss Kieffer secur- ing the interesting facts from the account books and minutes of

burley tobacco, flue-cured bright tobacco, fire-cured tobacco, and for other kinds.? Lancaster County has the rich soil and to a great extent fields protected from cold, both of which are essential for the production of high quality tobacco. The fertile limestone soils of Lancaster County, containing a

Conestoga or a branch, because in that year he complained 'that a certain person hath seated himself near the mill he built lately at Conestoga'." Other dates, names and places are claimed for "the very first mill in Lancaster County." For example it has been claimed that the first mill was built in 1714 by