Story #5 - Frankhouser Files
/Story #5 celebrates the day that SSM became home of the largest and most complete repository of survey records of Berks County, Pa.
February 17th, 1983 was the final settlement date at which the records, plans and title: Frankhouser Associates were transferred to Spotts, Stevens and McCoy, Inc.
Frankhouser Associates was a land surveying firm for 60 years before the acquisition by Spotts, Stevens and McCoy. With this acquisition, SSM’s archives were combined with 60 years of survey records and plans developed by Frankhouser Associates. This made SSM the official home of the largest and most complete repository of survey records of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
SSM continues to be the home of these historical documents and records. Some records date to the mid-1800s. In an interview by the Reading Eagle, Steve Smith, Survey Senior Project Manager, was quoted saying “There isn’t a day that I come to work that I am not back here using this archive.”
