Report of the Archaeological Investigations of the New Castle Court ...

1801
• March 3:
• County tax of $.45/per hundred dollars.
• For year 1801 to be applied toward repairing the Court House, prison, and workhouse.
• March 3:
• Ordered, the further sum of $1,000 be appropriated for the purpose of repairing the Court
House and for completing the public offices….
• No specified date:
• Motion ordered that further appropriation of $1000 be made for the repairing of the Court
House, building the public offices, repairing the workhouse and jail.
1803
• July 7: Paid to Thomas and Conrad Walraven as general contractors paid mason for
putting up steps at office door ($1.50). (Committee of Public Buildings Records,
III:A2/146).
• September 30: Paid to Michael Van Kirk, stone cutter (1804/02/11), two sets of marble
steps -112ft. (Comm. Of Public buildings Records III: A2/148).
1816
• September 4: Paid to Michael Lavery for iron railing around steps on SE side of public
buildings. Wt. 298 ½ @ 40 cents per lb. = $119.00; portage to New Castle = $2.50; 12 ½
lead = $1.56; chiseling holes in stone steps and putting up railings = $10.00. (Committee
of Public Buildings Records III:A2/354).
1820
• Appropriation for purchase of material and putting up a stone wall in front of the Court
House against the bank next the street where the brick wall is now.
• Appropriation for three sets of stone steps, one in front of the Court House next the street,
one at the end of the pavement next the Market house, and one at the door of the
Prothonatary’s Office. (Levy Court Records III:A2/258).
1821
• October 25: Paid to Enoch Anderson on 02-25-1822. Patching out pavement around
Court House where scaffold poles were $1.00.
1830
• Order of Levy Court to put a spout in front of the Court House, stopping the leaks about
the cupola.
• Committee appointed to put an iron railing in front of the Court House.