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1. 1.15.19-22 - Annual Report

   Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Council annual meeting minutes printed in the Fairhope Courier newspaper discussing progress and status of the FSTC in 1930. Incudes report of the treasurer, secretary and the trustees. Issues include the impact of the worldwide depression on the Colony, the recommendation to transfer the wharf and parklands to the Town of Fairhope, and discussion of the process used to build the ball park at the beach. From t...

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2. 1.15.9-10 - Meeting Minutes

   Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Council meeting minutes printed in the Fairhope Courier newspaper dated 1/15/1930. This, the annual pre-election meeting, has lengthy reports from the Treasurer, Trustees, and the secretary. Of note is the "falling off of wharf business" since the Cochrane bridge (the causeway) opened in June, 1927. Receipts fell from $6,854 in 1925 to $46 in 1929. Further, several tracts have been surrendered back to the Corp...

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3. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

   Fairhope Single Tax Corporation list of members and addresses dated May 13, 1932.

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4. 30.14.1-29 - Correspondence

   Papers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1929. Included is the Treasurer's Report for that month, resignation letter of A. E. Schalkenbach as a trustee of the FSTC and Secretary E. B. Gaston's response, official report of the annual FSTC elections, a petition and notice about a referendum election concerning the application for FSTC leases, a Statement to Members of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation concerning the amendment, a ...

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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. 30.25.1-19 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1926. Included is a long letter from W. S. Bryant of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile encouraging the FSTC, the owner of the local phone service, to consider doing business with his company; he makes references to the Bell Telephone system and anti-trust problems that company is having. Also included is a letter from Floy Mann Schermerhorn, the granddaughter of S. S. Mann, one...

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7. 30.40.1-17 - Correspondence

   General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 1928. Included is the Treasurer's Reprot for October 1928, a petition to call for a vote to replace Minnie H. Brown, who resigned as Treasurer of the FSTC with Mrs. Irene Lucier Buell. Other letters of interest are cataloged separately uned 30.40.12 and 30.40 16-17. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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8. 30.43.1-27 - Correspondence

   General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 9, 1928. Included is the monthly Treasurer's Report for the Corporation. Also there is a petition for a referendum to place R. E. L. Connolly on the ballot for the special election of October 5, 1928 for the position of Treasurer. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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9. 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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10. 3.2.107-117 - Correspondence

    Correspondence and documents dated 1930-1931 between T. H. Molton, and R. E. L. Connelly and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding Molton's rent and taxes for land and improvements at 52 N. Ingleside Street in Fairhope, Alabama. Molton, and hotelier, contractor and businessman from Birmingham, named his house "Molton's Lone Pine Place." Two letters from Molton written on his unusual stationery which had three pictures of the property...

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11. 32_1_1-294 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation about payment of taxes and rents due from lessees on Colony lands, dated 1932-1934. FSTC Treasurer R. E. L. Connolly died suddenly in October, 1932 and E. C. Wolcott assumed the role. There are references which Wolcott makes about acclimating to the job and reviewing information with care. Letters from the Baldwin County Building and Loan Association are scattered throughout this file...

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12. 33_2_122 - Cemetery Record Book

    Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 372. Some information below is from other official sources. Grave 1: Minnie Heald Brown, died 1925 Grave 2: Frank Loten Brown (Frank L. Brown) Grave 3: Ora Bell Johnson, died 1958 Grave 4: William M. Johnson, died 1942 Grave 5: R. E. L. Connolly, died 1932 Grave 6: Emma F. Pike Connolly, died 1942 Grave 7: Eloise L. Cross, died 1942 Grave 8: Capt J. R. Cross Capt and Mr...

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