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  1. 11.32.1-155 - Annual Report

    Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Annual Reports, 1956-1979.

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  2. 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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    33_2_038
  3. 4.10.1-115 - Correspondence

    Correspondence (Da-Di) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1936-1953 and C. A. Gaston. Included are several letters to C. A. Gaston from Bill Dealy (William Austin Dealy, W. A. Dealy) who was writing from Nashville, TN where he was an engineer with the War Department. Includes some of Dealy's cartoons, drawings and poetry. 4.10.64 is a response to a letter of condolence written to C. A. Gaston on the death of his father, E. B. Ga...

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  4. 7.20.1-192 - Letter

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1955-1971, (C-D). Includes general correspondence of the Corporation. 7.20 4-5 and 7.20. 89 are cataloged separately and provide insights into Fairhope benefactor, Joseph Fels. 7.20 includes correspondence between C. A. Gaston and John R. Chadwick, who works at The Birmingham News. Chadwic, Gaston, and Frances Gaston Crawford are discussing the possible sale of the Fairhope Courier ...

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  5. BSS.357-358 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by photographer Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of a small shotgun house located on Magnolia Avenue across from Knoll Park. Four ladies and a man are sitting on the porch. A house on Bayview Street is shown in the distance on the right. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection. Miss Ethel Darrow (1878-1969), daughter of C. A. Darrow and Elsie Williams Darrow, lived in this house for many years. See FMH_0059 fo...

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    Photograph, Digital
  6. FMH_0059 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph c.1927 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of a small shotgun house on Magnolia Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Miss Ethel Darrow, daughter of C. A. Darrow and Elsie Williams Darrow, lived in this house for many years. This picuture is available in postcard format with sepia tones at BSS.357-358 in these online Archives. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collect...

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    FMH_0059
  7. FMH-A0007b - Audio, Digital

    Interview (audio) dated 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). Part 2. The interviewer is not identified. Other interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007a. In this interview, the rest of the 1935 "Merry Christmas Folks" poem (started in FMH-A0007a) written by W. A. Dealy is read by the interviewer. Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant...

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    FMH-A0007b
  8. 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...

    Record Type: Photo

    Photograph, Digital
  9. FSTC-V0016 - Video, Digital

    Video interview dated January 7, 1992 with Arthur V. Keller, Sr. who was born in Fairhope in 1919. His great granfather Joseph Keller, grandfather Emmanuel Keller, father and six uncles moved to Fairhope from Kansas in 1900. Arthur describes the many houses built by the Keller family in and around Fairhope. Arthur was born in the family home located across the street from the Organic School Bell Building on Bancroft Street. Arthur's father wo...

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  10. x.1.52-53 - Annual Report

    1969 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. It was decided that calculations of leasehold rental charges be made, based on frontage rates in city and coutyry as determined by an appointed committee composed of R. Lucier Rockwell, C. W. Arnold and Sam Dyson. New Members-Mary P. Gaston, Lester I. Boone, Bart B. Jennings Deaths-Ivy Powell, Norton, Irene Lucier Buell, Ethel O. Darrow.

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    x.1.52-54

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