Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German: Devoted to the History, Biography, Genealogy, Poetry, Folk-Lore and General Interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and Their Descendants The opening of a road through the southern part of the county in 1754 and through the northern part in 1758 was followed soon after by a steady stream of settlers, mostly Germans, coming from the Kittatinny valley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.