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1. 17.17.6-7 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 1/10/1911. More pilings are required to repair the wharf than were originally estimated, and that purchase was authorized. Authorization to contact foundry in Mobile to straighten rails approved. Dimensions of the new warehouse approved, and discussion about building a waiting room moved forward with E. B Gaston authorized to contact Mr. O. Forster about plans for such a building.

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2. 17.17.8-9 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 1/28/1911 reporting the results of Oswalt Forster's plans to build a 30x34 warehouse building with a second story consisting of a 20x24 room. Other company business reported also.

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3. 34_72_015 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 8 Church Street South and 10 Church Street South in Fairhope, Alabama. Built by Forster and Sons construction company in 1945 as one building; subdivided, hence two addresses. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." From the Fairhope Public Library Co...

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4. 34_72_060-061 - Photograph, Digital

   Photographs and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 218 Fairhope Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1935-1936 by Oswald Forster and Sons. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." This commercial building was called The Mecca (The Mecca Service Station, The Mecca Filling Station), and operated as su...

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5. 35_36_001_003 - Documents

   The pierhead on the Fairhope Wharf was extended by 75 feet in 1921-early 1922 to more easily and safely accommodate Bay Queen steamer and other larger bay boats berthing there. Mr. Oswalt Forster secured the contract for the project for a total cost of $398.10. The contract, drawing of the new pierhead and an unsigned letter to Henry Crawford about the project are included. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Anne Bellange...

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6. 4.2.1-164 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (F) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1932-1955. 4.2.2-17 contains correspondence about the possibility of reorganizing the FSTC as a non-profit organization.

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7. 6.10.1-79 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (F) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1954.

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8. FMH_0149 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of Hazel Martha Forster (Hazel Martha Forster Hyde Agron) c.1925 standing outside her house on Fairhope Avenue near Wharf Hill in Fairhope, Alabama. She was born in 1919. Hazel was the daughter of Herbert Forster and Mabel Bowen Forster. Her grandfather Oswalt Forster was a prominent building contractor in Fairhope. Her maternal grandfather M. A. Bowen was a businessman and a mayor of Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpor...

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9. FSTC-0286 - Photograph, Digital

   Two slightly different photographs (one is torn) of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Fairhope, Alabama. The structure was built in 1931 by O. Forster and Sons, contractors (owner Oswald Forster) in an unusual-for-Fairhope Greek temple style. The Fairhope Christian Science Church building is located on the northeast corner of Fels Avenue and Church Street, at 301 Fels Avenue. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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10. viii.10.12 - Letter

    Letter dated 9/18/1916 to George R. Hennig form E. B. Gaston requesting issuance of Fairhope Wharf certificates.

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