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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Photograph- Manor Township High School 50th reunion of the class of 1928. Photo taken by Esther Kilheffer. Identified, left to right, are Nelson Wallick, D. L. Biemsderfer, J. Harry Pickle and A. Norman Ranck.
Photograph- Manor Township High School 50th reunion of the class of 1928. Photo taken by Esther Kilheffer. Identified, left to right, are Nelson Wallick, D. L. Biemsderfer, J. Harry Pickle and A. Norman Ranck.
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Manor Township High School 50th reunion of the class of 1928. Photo taken by Esther Kilheffer. Identified, left to right, are Nelson Wallick, D. L. Biemsderfer, J. Harry Pickle and A. Norman Ranck.
Manor Township High School Class of 1925 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of their graduation. Photo taken at the home of William and Elearnor Drumm Schultz, Millersville, PA. The photo shows the class with the husbands and wives.
Manor Township High School Class of 1925 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of their graduation. Identified left to right are: Clair Frantz, Helen Hopkins, Grace Warfel, Miriam Christ, Eleanor Drumm, Elizabeth Glick, Lori Guiles, Myrtle Siegler, Mildred Myers, Rhoda Herr, Norman Shoff, Walter Hess, Hiram Stamm, Hiram Stann, Laura Kready, and Alta Hershey. Photo was taken at the home of William Schultz and Eleanor Drumm Schultz, Millersville, PA.
The Manor Township Class of 1926 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Schultz, 2016 Millersville Pike, on the occasion of their 50th Class reunion. Identified left to right are: back row, standing: Toby Stehman, William Schultz, Ruth Brenneman Frantz, Carl Stehman, Lester Gehr, Ben Eshleman, Helen Hostetter Petrie, Nelson Swarr, Clarence Spangler, Emma Eshleman Kilheffer, Helen Frey Stoner, Grace Nye Gerlach. Front row, seated: Hazel Stauffer Weaver, Esther Habecker, Anna Charles, Elizabeth Corrigan, Mabel Leaman, Irene Sowers, Edna Frantz, Betty Herr, Priscilla Mellilnger, Rhoda Myers McSparran, and Hilda Wallick.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania "America's Oldest Inland City" 1730. Penn Square - Civil War Monument was erected in 1874. Original City Hall built in 1795, was restored in 1924 by M. T. Garvin. Central Market House was built iin 1889. Griest building is of 1923 vintage.