Documents filed with the Court of Common Pleas by municipalities in Lancaster County placing liens on real estate. The overwhelming majority were filed by the City of Lancaster. The next greatest number were filed by the Borough of Columbia. Other liens were filed by the boroughs of Adamstown, Ephrata, New Holland, Quarryville, Strasburg, and Washington. The liens show docket book and page numbers, the name of property owner, and then describe the location and size of the property along with buildings and improvements, the amount of money in question, and the cause for the assessment. These documents were recorded in Municipal Lien Docket Books 2 through 5, and are arranged in the order they appear therein. This leads to an oddity in filing order, in that the last 45 liens in Book 4 fall out of chronological sequence, overlapping and extending slightly beyond the dates of the liens in Book 5. Handwritten, plus a very few typewritten.
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection, Title and Object ID, Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Information for each lien has been recorded in an Excel Spreadsheet which is available in the Research Center and the attached PDF.
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Looking toward South Queen Street, a view of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on a cobblestone Penn Square. Note the New Era on left of photo and Intelligencer Journal on right. same as photo 2-05-11-14.
East King Street looking east to Duke Street. Signs for Burks, Rhodes Reed Jeweler, George W. Brown's Furniture Warerooms and also shows horse and wagon
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Eight Mueller children, names listed on the back of the photo are Minnie, Elizabeth, Helen, Esther, Ruth, Joseph, Henry and Paul. Children are not identified in the photo. Taken March 29, 1889 by Minnie. German writing also on back of photo signed G. P. M.
Yours of the 8th inst. enclosing less ($10.00) is received. Paid into the Lodge and credit given you for the Same on the Books giving you a credit balance of less 13/100 dolls ($10.13) this date clear of all charges.
