Lancaster on the one hand, and Baltimore and Philadelphia on the other.19 When Pennsylvania in the 1820's launched an ambitious program of public works, Lancaster County had the good fortune to lie astride the main route of the Pennsylvania Canal system connecting Pittsbur gh and Philadelphia. In 1834 the

rural areas of the lower valley to the cities on the seaboard. However, a portion was con- sumed by the milling, distilling, and woodworking industries of Lancaster and Chester Counties.49 Geographical locations gave the county another outstand- ing advantage in the 1830's. The State of Pennsylvania was

terprises tended to be small. 1 Votes of the Assembly, V, 255. 2 Coxe, View, p. 313. 3 Lancaster County Assessment Lists, 1773, Public Records, Harrisburg Pa. 4 Cazenova Journal,p. 75. 5 Minutes of the Select Council of the City of Lancaster, Feb. 22, 1836. 6 Pennsylvania Gazette, Sept. 11. 1760; American

. Johann Christopher Heyne, one of the great eighteenth century American pewterers, lived and worked in Lancaster prior to his death in 1781. 37 An authority on American pewter states that, though many another American pewterer had a more profitable business or attained greater local prominence