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1. 1.10.62 - Membership List

   List of Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation presumed to be "on the ground" and qualified to vote and "not in arrears" dated 1/23/1906.

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2. 1.14.2 - Letter

   Letter dated 1/28/1929 to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from E. B. Gaston, Secretary submitting to them a full report of preceedings at a special meeting held on 1/26/1929. Prior to the meeting, on 1/21/1929, a petition was presented to the Council calling for a referendum election to vote on whether the present form of application for lease be discontinued and the form which was used previously should be reinstated. At a ...

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3. 1.14.56 - Letter

   Letter to the Editor of the Fairhope Courier responding to an editorial which stated that "some people . . .seem to consider it almost a sacrilege to make a tree give way to the purpose of the people." The editorial is referring to the removal of trees and shrubbery in order to have a ball park on the beach. The author of the letter feels that many have been robbed of the beautiful wooded beach and that a more suitable location should hav...

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4. 2.1.28-33 - Yearbook

   Year Book 1906-1907, Women's Clubs, Fairhope, Alabama including; Fifth Thursday Club, Arts and Crafts Society, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Henry George Club and the Village Improvement Club.

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5. 30.19.1-19 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1929. Included are petitions to place Delia K. Bancroft in the February 1929 annual election ballot as a trustee of the FSTC and a petition for a referendum election concerning the applictaion for leases. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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6. 3.14.1-96 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (C) 1930-1935. (3.14-3-4 is a letter from William R. F. Call regarding the transfer of the park lands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope). (3.14.50-56 is correspondence with the Colonial Inn)

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7. 33_2_031 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book Lot 95. Members of the Coleman and Wood families are buried in this Lot: Grave 2: Hnery George Coleman, died 1979 and Eddie A. Walker Coleman, died 1993 Grave 6: Marlene G. Coleman Winberg, died 1987 Grave 7: Sarah Louise Wood Coleman, died 1947 and Clement LeFevre Coleman, died 1932 Grave 8: George W. Wood, died 1924 From the Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Ar...

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8. 34_9_001_020 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Library Review Club dated 1901-1903, which met for the first time in January 1901 in the home of Dr. Clara Atkinson in Fairhope, Alabama. The minutes are an interesting read because important early Fairhopers attended and participated in book reviews: e.g. Marie Howland, Carrie P. Sykes, Mrs. Louis Bostedo, George Bancroft, M. M. Cope, James Bellangee, C. L. Coleman, Sarah Woods (Sarah Woods Coleman) and others. ...

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9. FMH-A0007a - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) Part 1 dated April 28, 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. Others interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007b. In this interview, three of W. A. Dealy's comic poems are read by the interviewer and Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant details about early Fairhope. The first poem ...

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10. FSTC-V0024 - Video, Digital

    Video interview dated March 12, 1996 with Flo Coleman Schneider. Mrs. Schneider is the granddaughter of Clement L. Coleman, one of Fairhope's town founders. She is the daughter-in-law of Fairhope Mayor Joe Schneider. Her grandparents Clement "Clem" Lefevre Coleman and Sarah Louise Wood Coleman and her great grandfather George Warren Wood were charter members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Clement Coleman also served as President of ...

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11. x.3.21 - Legal Documents

    Declaration of Incoprporation of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 1, 1903 and Charter of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. This is a retyped version of one page probably prepared for the ongoing action against the Corporation in the 1970's. Charter members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation are listed.

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