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1. 1.10.117-122 - Letter

   Letter dated 10/6/1907 to E. B. Gaston from James Bellagee. This is a long letter and it is difficult to decipher where it starts and ends, it may be a draft. Mr. Bellangee is expressing discontent over Gaston's handling of the Fairhope Courier. He says that as editor of the Fairhope Courier Gaston has weight and influence with the outside world and that greater circumspection must be used in the future. "We can all pull together for affirmative...

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2. 1.10.129-133 - Letter

   Undated letter to the editor (likely of the Single Tax Review) authored by James Bellangee. Bellangee is responding to the editorial published by this paper in which is printed "the semblance of personality is unavoidable" in the discussion of the troubles in Fairhope. Bellangee agrees with that comment and says the "true story of Fairhope's troubles cannot be told without full recognition of a degree of human weakness and folly that will sh...

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3. 1.10.8-11 - Letter

   Copy of a letter dated 3/12/1905 to E. B. Gaston from R. S. McMahon of New Iberia, Louisiana who has just returned from Fairhope which he sees as a "magnificent success" and "that its future welfare contains a promise of freedom for the world." He is worried about the venomous attacks being made on the Fairhope Colony by Dr. Greeno and Dr. Hail. He has just met with Mr. Weeks, who is fine lawyer and active Single Taxer and given him the constitu...

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4. 1.11.10 - Newspaper Article

   Undated newspaper clipping from unidentified newspaper discussing a myriad of issues about Fairhope, including Dr. Harris Greeno's membership application to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, the fate of the steamer "Fairhope," quotes from Henry George, the need for a "real newspaper in Fairhope that will report the news in a non partisan manner," and the ongoing issues between the "Royalists" and the "Patriots." The Royalists are the Fairhope...

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5. 17.17.3 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of Wharf Company dated 12/2/7/1910 to discuss rebuilding of wharf. It was agreed that most of the old pilings can be used, and order and delivery of new pilings authorized.

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6. 17.17.31-32 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 5/2/1912. The directors authorized that work on wharf hill be completed, that a "competent man" be hired to examine the condition of the wharf and make a report, that the complaint by fishermen of the rude behavior of the wharfinger be brought to Mr. Patterson's attention, and that bills be paid.

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7. 17.17.34 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 6/3/1912. Bills paid. Mr. N. Mershon, a Company director reports on the plans of Capt. J. Lawrence to repair the wharf; the plans are approved. The wharfinger is requested to supply prompt reports on both wharves to the directors.

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8. 17.17.35-36 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 8/5/1912. Bills paid, mostly for repairs on the wharf. Authorized for $100 to be borrowed to meet an upcoming bank note. Approved claims of breakage in the warehouse, and request Mr. Watros to stop standing in the rail car and soliciting business.

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9. 17.17.37 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 12/16/1912 reporting end-of-year business, and replacing Dr. Greeno, who resigned with A. O. Berglin, and G. W. Wood replaces the deceased J. M. Beckner.

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10. 17.17.4 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes of the Wharf Company dated 1/2/1911 (although listed in record as 1910). $500 loan has been secured at 6% interest to repair the wharf.

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11. 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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12. 1.7.3-116 - Meeting Minutes

    This 116 page document contains the Meeting Minutes of the Baldwin County Agricultural Society (also known as the Baldwin County Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Growers Associaton) from July 13,1897 to August 2,1902. It also contains the Constitution, By-laws and Membership Rolls of the Association. The stated object of the Association was to aid one another as to the interests of those engaged in the cultivation of the soil or in the distribution ...

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13. 1902_Courier_Page_041 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of "White Gables," built in 1902 and the residence of Dr. Harris S. Greeno in Fairhope, Alabama. Published in the March 15, 1902 Fairhope Courier. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Courier Collection.

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14. 1908_Courier_Page_162 - Newspaper Article

    Article from the Fairhope Courier dated June 5, 1908 reporting the results of the first municipal election for the Town of Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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15. 1.9.17-20 - Letter

    Letter dated 11/1/1905 to the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (C. E. Littlefield, Marie Howland and James Bellangee) in which they reply to the questions put forth by "certain parties." These include questions about boat certificates, scrip, and assets and liabilities, among other things. They include a Statement of Assets and Liabilities, List the Donors to the Lan...

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16. 33_2_014 - Cemetery Record Book

    Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of Lot 61 as shown on page 61 of the book. Lot 61 Grave 1: No information Grave 2: Ernest Vincent Baldwin, died 1910 Grave 3: Mrs. H. S. Greeno (Sarah E. Bodine Greeno), died 1913 Grave 4: Dr. H. S. Greeno (Harris S. Greeno or Harris Soper Greeno), died 1919 Grave 5 : Stillborn infant Nelson, died 1910 and child's mother, Louie Emma Shepherd Nelson (Mrs. George Nelson), died 1911 Grave 6 and Grave 7: ...

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17. 34_72_155 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 66 South Section Street (66 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1911 and dedicated in January 1912. 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." The is the Masonic Lodge Building, also referred to as the Greeno Lodge and the Masonic Temp...

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18. 34_77_129-130 - Photograph, Digital

    Photographs and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014/2015 of 107 Mobile Street in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1900. Residence of Dr. Harris S. Greeno, the first mayor of Fairhope. This house is located in the Bayfront Historic District. See 34_76_001-174 for all buildings in this District or search "Bayfront Historic District." From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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19. DBJ-0395-0399 - Photograph, Digital

    Photographs by Arthur M. Dealy of the Pensacola, Florida port taken in September, 1908. Included is a wide picture of the port at Pensacola, a photo of a loaded cart leaving the warehouse, and two dockworkers posed on the wharf. There are also two pictures of the steamer Manteo. The Manteo was owned by the son-in-law of Dr. Harris Greeno (the first mayor of Fairhope), H. B. Slaughter. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection, Fairhope S...

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20. FMH_0811 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph c 1916 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of two men in an open car driving south on Mobile Street. The Colonial Inn is seen in the background. Dr. Harris S. Greeno, Fairhope's first mayor, owned the small house to the right of the Inn. The power pole dates this picture after 1915. Mr. Stewart titled the picture "The Colonial Inn, Fairhope, Ala." From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of...

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