Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Gaston, Margaret Nichols |
Related Records
-
11.32.1-155 - Annual Report
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Annual Reports, 1956-1979.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
1.19.4 - Letter
Undated letter (probably 1932-33) to members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation urging support of a constitutional amendment to change how taxes are paid in relation to rent. The FSTC financial safety is under threat due to the depression, the "vicious land system," the decrease in wharfage fees due to the opening of the Cochrane Bridge and the lack of a "modern, hard-surfaced through highway." Signed by all officers of the Fairhope Singl...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
1.2.12-14 - Membership List
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation list of members and addresses dated May 13, 1932.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
1.2.3-11 - Membership List
List of Fairhope Single Tax Corportation members and addresses dated 2/7/1935. (several copies)
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
34_77_208-209 - Photograph, Digital
Photographs and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014/2015 of 102 Summit Street North in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1926. Home of Dr. Cornelius A. Gaston and wife Margaret Nichols Gaston. Dr. Gaston was secretary of the Fairhope Sngle Tax Corporation from 1936-1972 and also practiced chiropratic medicine. This house is located in the Bayfront Historic District. See 34_76_001-174 for all buildings in this District or search "Bayfron...
Record Type: Photo
-
4.1.1-176 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and personal correspondence of C. A. Gaston, dated 1932-1952. The following pages were cataloged separately: 4.1.5-9 4.1.29-31 4.1.107-110 4.1.120-123 4.1.124 4.1.128 The rest of the material in 4.1.1-176 includes correspondence about delinquent rents and other FSTC general business, most notably a conflict with Mrs. Emma Drath. Considerable personal correspondence is between...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
5.10.1-234 - Letter
Correspondence of secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1952, (letter W). Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC: letters of inquiry about the Colony, letters of inquiry about leasing lands, records, rents and other day-to-day business correspondence. In addition, there is correspondence between C. A. Gaston and Fiske Warren (and other Warren family members) about pro...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
5.11.1-203 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, Letter 'R," 1935-1953. 5.11.143-159 includes correspondence with FDR, Cordele Hull and Lister Hill.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
8.7.1-116 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1955-1969, letter 'M.' 8.7.5. mentions the date "The Fairhope" book by the Alyeas goes on sale ($4.50), and Cornelius Gaston's opinion of it. 8.7 contains briefs to the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United State in a suit brought by J. R. Mason.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
FMH-A0005b - Audio, Digital
Second part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation for a few minutes around the midway point. Approximately 48 minutes. Part 1 is FMH-A0005a. Topics include homes, hotels and businesses, social and atheletic acti...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
FSTC-0255 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c 1932 of the E.B. Gaston family in Fairhope, Alabama. The picture includes E.B. and Clara Gaston, their five children (Frances, James, Cornelius, Leah and Arthur), their spouses and children. The sign in the middle reads "Fairhope The First Fireplace Built in Fairhope." E. B. and Clara Gaston moved their family to the first home occupied in the Fairhope Colony on January 24, 1895. Left to Right: James Ernest Gaston, Sr. Jame...
Record Type: Photo
-
FSTC-1128-1129 - Photograph, Digital
Two photographs, not dated, of Margaret Nichols Gaston and friends. In the first picture, Mrs. Gaston and her smiling friend stand in front of the Pinquat Shop located on Fairhope Avenue in downtown Fairhope. In the second photo, Mrs. Gaston and another friend are wading on a summer day. Mrs. Gaston was the duaghter of Paul Nichols, a teacher and administrator at the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama. She wa...
Record Type: Photo
-
FSTC-1133 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c. 1940s of a party in Fairhope,Alabama. Identified are Frances Gaston Crawford, standing on the far left holding a cup, Margaret NIchols Gaston and Cornelius Alsonzo Gaston (C. A. Gaston) standing on the right side of the fireplace. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives,
Record Type: Photo
-
PMG-1000 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated June 1932 of the E. B. Gaston family in Fairhope, Alabama. This is a duplicate of FSTC-0255, but a better quality image. The picture included E. B. and Clara Gaston, their five adult children (Frances, James, Cornelius, Leah and Arthur), with spouses and children. The sign in the middle reads "Fairhope The First Fireplace built in Fairhope." E. B. and Clara Gaston moved their family into the first home built in the Fairhope ...
Record Type: Photo
-
PMG-1044 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated late 1940s of the five children of E. B. Gaston and Clara Mershon Gaston. L-R seated: Olive "Piney" Wood Gaston, James E. Gaston, Sr., Frances Gaston Crawford, Leah Gaston McGill, Max P. McGill, Jr. L-R standing: Arthur Fairhope "Spider" Gaston, Mary Price Gaston, Margaret Nichols Gaston, Cornelius Alonzo Gaston, Henry Crawford, Jr, Hallie Crawford. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archi...
Record Type: Photo
-
PMG_14274-14276 - Card
Christmas Card, 1920, to Margaret Nichols (Margaret Nichols Gaston) from Mrs. Marietta L. Johnson. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
PMG_14277-14280 - Letter
Letters written by Major James E. Hill to Margaret Nichols Gaston thanking her for playing tennis with him to celebrate his 85th and 86th anniversary days (birthdays). Major Hill retired from military service and moved to Fairhope where he was active in civic affairs and played tennis daily. Photographs of the dashing Major Hill dressed in his tennis whites posed courtside with his tennis friends are in these Archives. Search by name under ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
PMG_8498_8499 - Documents
"Principles underlying the guidance of teachers in planning work for the life classes ages 10 to 14." These are Instructions for teachers at the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama. Margaret Nichols Gaston Collection, a part of the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
-
PMG_9020-9024 - Photograph, Digital
Photographs c.1920s of Cornelius A. Gaston and Margaret Nichols Gaston. The couple married in 1921. Gaston was the son of Fairhope founder E. B. Gaston and succeeded his father as Secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (a position he held from 1936-1972). Margaret Nichols Gaston was the daughter of Professor Paul Nichols (a teacher and Assistant Director of the School of Organic Education) and Louella Nichols. "Cornie" and Marg...
Record Type: Photo
-
PMG_9028 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of children, a baby and a young woman on a wharf near Fairhope, Alabama. The woman, wearing a stylish swim costume, is Margaret Nichols Gaston with her baby Paul M. Gaston. The wharf has rails on it, which was not unusual to see on the long wharves along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Because of the distant backround, this is likely not the Fairhope Wharf. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collec...
Record Type: Photo
