Lower Pottsgrove Manager Rodney Hawthorne shows off the latest historical gift to the township.
POTTSTOWN PA – A local real estate agent whose family has deep roots in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township has made the most recent contribution to the municipality’s historical archives.
David Prizer, who grew up living on Buchert Road and whose father, Stanley, was Lower Pottsgrove’s first building inspector and zoning codes enforcement officer, has donated two business ledgers formerly kept by his father to the township, Manager Rodney Hawthorne recently told the Board of Commissioners. Both list and detail transactions conducted by Stanley Prizer on behalf of the township in years between 1956 and 1970, Hawthorne said.
“What’s fascinating about these,” Hawthorne added, “is the ability to compare them to today. Back in 1956, to get a building permit for a new home cost only $5,” he said, pointing to the books’ pages as they lay open on the board’s conference room table for commissioners to examine. Today’s cost for new home permits and associated paperwork, according to Hawthorne, totals about $8,000.
Even the ledgers were inexpensive in the ’50s, the manager said, as he looked at a price sticker on the inside front cover. At the time, the bound book with lined pages cost less than $4.
Commissioners asked Hawthorne to author a letter of thanks to Prizer, expressing their appreciation for the gift. The ledgers will be kept in the township building for display, Hawthorne said.
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ March 18 meeting):
- Notebook Worthy
- Township Hires Consultant To Find Interchange Business
- Zoning, Subdivision Laws On Township’s Agenda
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