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31_1929_1-13 |
Object Name |
Meeting Minutes |
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Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1929 including the routine business of the Corporation: financial statements, lease transfers, annual meeting minutes. Among other topics of interest: Several issues about the Colony Cemetery were brought up in 1929 including the proposal to start charging "outside people" (i.e. non-members and non-lessees) for burial plots, notifying Walter H. Mask of Mask Mortuary to cease burying people in the Colony Cemetery without permission, cutting trees in the Cemetery and selling that lumber and authorizing a new mapping a burial space numbering system. A referendum to change the application of leasing lands was brought to the Colony Council several times in 1929, with a referendum vote in June against changing the form. While Black Monday, October 28, 1929, was yet to come, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation started to experience a high number of delinquent rents from lessees who could not pay their taxes or FSTC rents. A fire at the Wharf warehouse at the pierhead on October 15, 1929 destroyed the structure and contents. Both were covered by insurance. ( Note: The Town of Fairhope Fire Department and the incoming bay boat Eastern Shore both worked to extinguish the fire and only the warehouse and contents were damaged.) Mr. George Fuller, representing the Christian Science Society, addressed the Colony about building a church on Colony land and issues regarding taxation and rents on churches. (See FSTC-0286 in these online archives for a picture of the church which opening in 1931.) A black walnut gavel was given to the Colony at the September 17, 1929 meeting which was carved from a black walnut tree located on the Kentucky farm when Abraham Lincoln was born. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation requested T. J. Klumpp, owner of Klumpp Motor Company (Chevrolet dealership located at the southwest corner of Bayview Street and Fairhope Avenue), to stop dumping automobiles and parts behind his business in Stack's Gully or on any other Colony lands. The death of Mrs. Minnie H. Brown in December 1929 was noted with expressions of appreciation for her long service to the FSTC and the community. Mrs. Brown held several elected offices in the Corporation including serving as Treasurer for several years. The Colony supported a fund to secure the Auburn University Extension Service Gulf Coast Sub-Station by donating $100. (N.B. Auburn University was called Alabama Polytechnic Institute at the time; the station was started in 1930 under the direction of Otto Brown.) From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. |
Date |
1929 |
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