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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Loose photograph - Jennie and Dad at Diamond Station, October 1904.
Provenance
Album thought to belong to the family of Frank McMichael and his wife, Laura Sutter. They were orginally from the Quarryville area, but later moved to the city of Lancaster.
Loose photograph - Dad, Mother, Jimmie, Donahue - on trolley at Terre Hill, 1906.
Provenance
Album thought to belong to the family of Frank McMichael and his wife, Laura Sutter. They were orginally from the Quarryville area, but later moved to the city of Lancaster.
Loose photo - group of women seated in an early automobile
Provenance
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.
Group of women and children at the beach. Standing at center is Ida Diller Townsend.
Provenance
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.
Group of people on front porch of house. Thought to be Jacob Townsend, Susan Homsher Townsend, Ellwood Townsend and Ida Diller Townsend.
Provenance
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.
Photograph-W. A. Brinkman, Wallpaper--Six unidentified men are posed outside of storefront in front of paper rolls
Description
W. A. Brinkman, Wallpaper, 13-15 E. Orange St., Lancaster City-- rolls of paper in front of store. Also, Harry L. Zook, Leather; P. H. Schaum, Electric Contractor; and C. J. Swarr & Co., Coal. Customer: W. A. Brinkman. Six unidentified men are posed in front of paper rolls
Robert Fulton Birthplace, built 1740. Note on back of photograph relating to ownership by Swift family since 1772. Persons identified are F. B. N. Hoffer, Joseph Swift and Madison Clendining
