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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Unidentified girl with straight dark hair, light colored dress and lace at collar.
Provenance
Album thought to belong to the Willson family who were the last owners of Wheatland. Contains both cabinet cards and carte de visites, as well as a few tintypes. Cover is brown with black and gold trim. Very few of the photographs are identified.
Loose photo - Burch R. Reber and his sister, Beulah Reber, c. 1880.
Provenance
Large brown album of carte de visites and tintypes, thought to be a Kieffer family album. In fair condition. Has brass clasps and a few loose photos. Most photos are not indentified.
Red velvet album in very poor condition. Gift of Susan Carver Buchanan. Album is that of Ellwood Townsend and his wife, Ida Diller, who were from Smyrna, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County. Album contains cabinet cards.
