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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Album #1: Four photos of a little girl named Marla, age 4 months, at Caledonia Park, Franklin County, PA. Bottom row: 1. Elvin Wails. 2. Violet Beck Wails. 3. Elvin and Evenne Wails. 4. Evenne Wails.
Plan for South East Ward also showing 1 drawing each of Odd Fellows Hall, Residence of Mrs. S. A. Porter, H. Leamans Rifle Works, Residence of Clement B. Grubb, German Reformed Church, Residence of Emanuel C. Reigard, Esq., and Residence of E. C. Darlington, Esq.. Locations of buildings are noted. 1 print only
Plan for South East Ward, also showing 1 drawing each of St. James Free Episcopal Church, Western Hotel, Rockland Cotton Mill, Red Lion Hotel, Residence of James Black, Esq., Lancaster County Prison, Ephrata Mountain Springs--locations of buildings are noted. 1 print only
Plan of North West Ward also showing 1 drawing each of Cross Keys Hotel, Residence of A. W. Russel, Reese's City Hotel, McConomy Store, Lancaster Coach Factory, Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, H. Logman's (?) Rifle Works, Residence of Emanuel C. Reigard, Esq., and 1 unidentified building. Locations of buildings are noted. 1 print only
