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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Armstrong Cork Co. 25 Year Club, at the Closure Plant. Identified are H. K. Mearig, standing, far right; Al Smaler, seated at left; J. D. Glenn, seated second from left; Fred Ritts seated at center; and Lewis Bentley, Superintendent, seated at right.
Janet Eshelman at organ with unidentified man. Written on back: "Landis Valley Farm Museum Farm Show Exhibit with Governor William Scranton (1963-1967) - 1967"
Ingenious space age electronic components - pretty Donna Loar exhibits some of the Space Age electron Tubes made at RCA's manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pa. The company has just announced a $11.6 million expansion program for this plant. Some of these conversion tubes shown help outer space vehicles "see" and make complex measurements of distant planets. Others are used in military equipment and TV cameras as well as specialized industrial and scientific instruments. Miss Loar holds an osillograph tube which is widely used in electronic test equipment.
