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1. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

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

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2. 29.26.1-26 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous undated documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, c.1926-1936. Includes "Points for Forum Discussion of Colony Land and Lease Policy," general correspondence, a poem by Cyrus Gaston, essay by H. H. Timby titled "Taxation Tyranny and Bureaucratic Burdens Menace Industry, Destroy Democracy," and a petition to not allow a tennis court to be placed on parklands. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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3. 30.12.1-20 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1926. Included is general FSTC correspondence, the results of the February 4, 1926 annual FSTC elections, a letter to Fiske Warren from E. B. Gaston discussing the results of the election and Mrs. Anne B. Call's inclination to "throw out ballots where instructions are not strictly followed" (Mrs. Call is a FSTC trustee charged with overseeing the election), the opening of Brown ...

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4. 30.15.1-34 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1927 and March 1927. Includes the official results of the Feburary 3, 1927 annual FSTC election, official audit of the 1926 FSTC financials, letters to the Alabama Public Service Commission, report on the value of fruit and nut trees on property the FSTC was readying to open, and other assorted FSTC correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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5. 30.2.1-5 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1924. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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6. 3.31.2 - Letter

   Letter dated 5/18/1932 to C. A. Darrow in Fairhope, Alabama from E. B. Gaston, representing the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, sending condolences on the death of his wife.

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7. 33_2_038 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 102 Grave 1: C. A. Darrow, died 1932 Grave 2: Mrs. C. A. Darrow, died 1932 Grave 3: Frank Melefchik, died 1932 Grave 4: George O. Miller, died 1927 Grave 5: Ethel O. Darrow, died 1969 Grave 6: Florence Schwan, mother of Albert Schwan, died 1941 Grave 7: William P. Anderson, died 1951 Grave 8: Welker Gustafson, died 1933 Later deaths do not appear in this Cemetery book but ...

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8. 40_27_001-010 - Stock

   Five People's Cooperative Store stock certificates issued between 1921 and 1927 in amounts of $25 and $50. The certificates were issued to C. A. Darrow, Susie H. Reynolds and Karl Venrick. Various Store officials signed the certificates: C. A. Darron, E. B, Gaston, Wingate Green A. M. Troyer and Edith Conrow. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of Ralph Reynolds.

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9. 44_02_01-98 - Land Abstract

   Abstract of Title detailing the ownership of land on which the current City of Fairhope is located. Dated 1817-1952. Laurent Millaudon (1786-1868), a New Orleans merchant and real estate developer, acquired the Baron Louis W. De Feriet claim of two tracts on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay to the south of the William A. Patterson tract and north of what was the Weggs Plantation from Arthur Lee Sims in 1837-1838. This area was known as Clifton...

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10. FSTC-1118-1119 - Photograph, Digital

    Cabinet card photograph of C. A. Darrow (Charles Alroy Darrow 1844-1932). Darrow, his wife Elsie Williams Darrow and daughter Ethel O. Darrow moved to Fairhope, Alabama in 1911. Mr. Darrow was the bookkeeper for the People's Railroad Company and, later, the People's Cooperative Store. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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11. FSTC-1122-1124 - Photograph, Digital

    Photographs of Miss Ethel O. Darrow in December 1965 and her cottage at 83 Magnolia Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Miss Darrow was the daughter of C. A. Darrow (Charles Alroy Darrow 1844-1932) and Elsie Williams Darrow (1849-1932). Mr. Darrow and family moved to Fairhope in 1911 where he was bookkeeper for the People's Railroad Company and later the bookkeeper at the People's Cooperative Store. After her parents death, Miss Reynolds care was assu...

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