Title: German immigration to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s - Lynn-Heidelberg Historical Society
Headings: Lynn-Heidelberg Historical Society

Content: The German immigrants were not moving to America and adopting the ways of the English speaking community. The German immigrants moved to America and brought with them the German language and the German way of doing things. Their communities in America were simply the German culture transplanted to American soil. When the Germans arrived in this country, some of them went to the frontier and every year the German settlers would push the frontier further west. They were looking for good land that had not already been claimed. They could tell good land by the trees that grew on it. If there were a lot of walnut trees, the land was very fertile. The fact that they would have to cut down the trees to build a new home and create land that could be farmed did not deter them. The long standing forests were coming down by the mighty blows of the immigrant's axe. Their homes were appearing wherever there was a cool spring.