Liens filed by contractors showing names of parties including owner of property; Description of property including location; nature of claim; Description of materials and work done on property; volume and page number of recording in Mechanics' Liens Docket; and date filed.
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by date filed.
Date Range
1837, 1840-1869
Year Range From
1837
Year Range To
1869
Date of Accumulation
1837, May 1840 - Apr 1858, 1861 - 1869, incomplete
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Credit
Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Bruce Ryder Photo Album #5, page 3. Two photos as follows: (1) Valley Forge, Washington's Headquarters, per label on the back of the photo; (2) A high arched area at Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge.
Letter to Absalom Dubree, surveyor in Little Britain Twp. from James [ ] in Lower Oxford Twp., Chester County, regarding a delay in settlement on a house for John Kirk & Hambleton. 22 March 1835.
Letter to Absalom Dubree at Buck, Drumore Twp. from Jeremiah Brown in Goshen asking him to survey a piece of land they wish to sell. 18 November 1841.
Letter to Absalom Dubree in Buck, Drumore Twp. from someone compiling a history of Lancaster County and looking for Dr. Chandler's papers with history on Little Britain Twp., Colerain Twp., and Drumore Twp. that the doctor thought were with Dubree. 31 December 1842.
Admin/Biographical History
Absalom Dubree (1780-1859) was a noted scrivener and surveyor. He was born in Chester County, lived in Drumore Twp. and Little Britain Twp., and is buried at Penn Hill Friends Burial Ground in Fulton Twp.
Jeremiah Brown was a congressman and abolitionist. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1826 and to the PA Constitutional Convention of 1837. He represented Pennsylvania's 4th and 8th Districts in the United States House of Representatives from 1841 to 1845 and served as an associate judge for Lancaster County from 1851 to 1856.
Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
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Blueprint for a fraternity house for Psi Chapter Phi Kappa Sigma
Description
Psi Chapter Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. McAllister St. and East Beaver Ave., State College, PA. Henry Y. Shaub. Registered Architect.
House. Scale Varies. Plot Plan, Basement Plan, Plan of First Floor, Plan of Second Floor, Details, Plan of Third Floor, Front Elevation, Left Side Elevation, Rear Elevation, Right Side Elevation. File No. 368. 15 August 1927.
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Credit
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Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Cataloged by JP, Summer 2013. Add to database 23 October 2023.
Page 26: Entrance to Oak Hill; Large mansion, "Oak Hill, R. S. M. McIlwain (now), Judge J. Hay Brown"; View of Oak Hill mansion, "Judge J. Hay Brown, Oak Hill"; Tree lined drive, "Leaving Oak Hill, Paradise Presbyterian Church in distance"; Wild Cat Falls, May 30, 1902; Home of Col. Joel Lightner. Oak Hill, home in Paradise Twp. Wild Cat Falls is in York County.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.