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- ↑ "City of Lancaster: Mayors of the City of Lancaster". Archived from the original on August 25, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
- ↑ David Schuyler, A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940-1980 p. 87
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