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Mayor and staff work to declutter historic city hall
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Yorktown City Hall’s Hidden Historical Gems -
Yorktown Historical Museum Director Beverly Bruns, right, admires a large canvas painting found upstairs at the Yorktown City Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Inset photo: Yorktown Mayor Bill Baker inspects documents within a vault upstairs at Yorktown City Hall. PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY HANS LAMMEMAN
Yorktown city staff and local organizations have used the top two stories of their historic city hall as storage for approximately four decades. Last year, Mayor Bill Baker began the daunting task of decluttering the second and third floors of the old bank building and local treasures started revealing themselves.
In addition to stacks of antique city records and office supplies, the cleanup has…
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