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1. 8.18.1-97 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous correspondence dated 1979-1994 to various Fairhope Single Tax Corporation officers including Don W. Gooden, President and Mary G. Godard, Secretary, later Charles B. Ingersoll, President and Gale W. Rowe, Secretary. 8.18.68 is a letter written to the Fairhope Public Library and forwarded to Gale W. Rowe at the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Yvonne Johnson who is writing her doctoral dissertation on the Ruskin Colony. She i...

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2. 8.9.1-114 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1966-1997, letters B-H. Includes general FSTC business correspondence. 8.9.61 lists the 1979 FSTC Board and Committees. 8.9.83-88 is "The One-Mile Railroad," by Ernest B. Ehlers and Pinky Bass about the Peoples' Rail Road. 8.9.98 are FSTC Execultive Council Minutes of meeting in September, 1979, in reaction to Hurricane Frederick.

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3. 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...

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4. FSTC-V0013 - Video, Digital

   Video of Four interviews interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell 1st Video (Note: some of the beginning of this video is missing): Interview in 1995 with Anna Coleman Wood Myers who talked about attending public school in Fairhope and the Organic School. She spoke of childhood memories and how the children entertined themselves in Fairhope. She commented "Fairhope compares favorably with everywhere." Mrs. Wood and her sist...

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5. 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 ...

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6. PMG-1802 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of first cousins Frances McGill, Mary Frances Gaston (known as "Buddy") and Mary McGill in 1931. These are the children of siblings Leah Gaston McGill and Arthur Fairhope Gaston, and the grandchildren of E. B. Gaston and Clara Mershon Gaston of Fairhope, Alabama. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

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7. x.1.54-55 - Annual Report

   1970 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Rent charges were increased by 8.51% for city land and 8.99% for country land as a result of reappraisals by the rent study committee appointed by the Colony council. This resulted in some lessees, largely those leasing country land, filing a petition asking the council to reconsider such increase and to reduce it. The petition bore 153 signatures. New Members-Converse Harwell, Glen...

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8. x.4.14-16 - Membership List

   List of Resident Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1975

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9. x.5.21 - Letter

   Letter dated 4/18/1979 to the members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Mary G. Godard, Secretary explaining that the Executive Council has been working to form a new corporation under the general laws of Alabama and tranferring its assets and liabilities to the new corporation. The purpose of this change is to remove the corporation from the ever present threat of being abolished by the Alabama State Legislature. A petition calling for...

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10. x.5.22-24 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 4/17/1979 in which dissolution was discussed as being in the best interest of the corporation. It was mentioned that a new corporation was in the process of being formed under Section 10, Chapter Two (2) Code of Alabama, 1975, as Amended and was being organized as a "FOR PROFIT" domestic corporation.

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11. x.5.28-30 - Legal Documents

    Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order filed by Rudolph John Rezner, Sr. against Donald W. Gooden, Claude W. Arnold, Mary G. Godard, Frederick I. Boone, Thomas H. Brown, Charles B. Ingersoll, Robert G. Mason, John S. Parker and all members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from conducting a vote 4/22/1979 for the dissolution and re-incorporation of the corporation, claiming that irreparable injury, loss and damage will result.

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12. x.5.33-38 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the first meeting of the Incorporators and Subscribers of the newly formed Fairhope Single Tax Corporation on 4/22/1979 in which the Certificate of Incorporation, Constitution, Directors, Trustees, and a Seal for the Stock Certificates were presented.

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13. x.5.39-42 - Letter

    Letter dated 4/23/1979 to the members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Mary G. Godard, secretary, notifying them that 66 ballots were cast on 4/22/1979 up to the time they were served with an injuntion (which is enclosed) at which time the ballot box was sealed, 33 additional members cast ballots. The enclosed injunction revokes the charter of any single tax corporation organized under Section 10-4-190 through Section 10-4-193, cod...

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14. x.5.5 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/6/1979 to the members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Don Gooden, calling them to a meeting on 2/11/1979. As a result of a meeting between the officers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and a Baldwin County legislative delegation, proposals were made that require a response from the corporation. It is urgent, in fact imperative, that all members attend.

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15. x.5.7-12 - Legal Documents

    Certificate of Incorporation of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1979, pursuant to Section 10, Chapter Two (2) of Code of Alabama, 1975, as amended.

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16. x.6.24-26 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes dated 2/1/1979 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation meeting in extraordinary session to read the report of the recent elections for 1979. Resolutions were passed recognizing the service of Sam Dyson, J. E. Gaston, Jr, and Marvin Nobles.

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17. x.7.11 - Letter

    Letter dated 9/12/1979 to the Lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Mary G. Godard, Secretary informing them of a meeting to be held on 9/24/1979 at Comings Hall on the Organic School campus. The meeting will be centered around response to written questions mailed to the Colony office by 9/20/1979. The goal is that it will afford a better understanding of FSTC objectives and operations as well as the terms of the lease relationship ...

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