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1. 30.35.1-15 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1926. 30.35.4 is a letter to E. B. Gaston from T. E. Mann in Gladbrook Iowa dated November 3, 1926, in which he asks Gaston about the possibilty of acquiring accommodations in Fairhope for a few months (Gaston responds at 30.35.6). Mann is a son of Fairhope co-founder S. S. Mann, and supported the Colony over the years. Mann references his wife, his daughter Floy Mann ...

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2. 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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3. FMH_0973 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March, 1927, of Emma Mann (Mrs. T. E. Mann) and her granddaughter, Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt). They are visiting Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart), the "Hermit" of Montrose (also known as Ye Olde Weaver) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Mrs. Mann's husband, T. E. Mann, was the son of Shuah S. Mann, one of Fairhope's founders and a member of the two-man Locating Committee which found the site for the new Colony of Fairho...

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4. FMH_0974 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March 1927 of Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Bonnie was visiting Henry Stuart (known as the "Hermit" of Montrose and Ye Olde Weaver) with her grandmother, Emma Mann. Bonnie is standing by Henry James Stuart's sundial. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History

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5. FMH_0975 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March 1927 of little Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt) and Mrs. Higgins in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.

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6. FMH_2228-2229 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph by Floy Mann Schermerhorn dated March 26, 1927 of her daughter Bonnie Schermerhorn (Bonnie Schermerhorn Holt) and Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946). Mr. Stuart and Bonnie are pictured at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Bonnie was the great-granddaughter of Shuah Strait Mann, a founder of the Fairhope. Mr. Mann and James Bellangee comprised the locating committee that toured five states in the summer of 1894 searching f...

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7. FSTC-1323-1324 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated March 1927 of Bonnie Schermerhorn (Holt) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Bonnie was visiting Henry Stuart (known as the "Hermit" of Montrose and Ye Olde Weaver) with her grandmother, Emma Mann. Bonnie is standing by Henry James Stuart's sundial. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, Courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.

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8. FSTC-V0035 - Video, Digital

   Video interview (26 minutes) with Bonnie Holt dated February 2, 1995 in her home in Fairhope, Alabama. Bonnie is a fourth generation member of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Her great grandfather, Shuah Strait Mann, was a member of the Fairhope Industrial Association; he and James Bellangee were the two-man locating committee that toured five states in the summer of 1894 searching for the site to establish the Fairhope Single Tax Colony. ...

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9. FSTC-V0046 - Video, Digital

   Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated June 2, 2015 with Alison Holt Knight. Shuah S. Mann was one of two people who located the site for Fairhope for the demonstration of the economic theory of the Single Tax. As a great great grandaughter of Shuah Mann, Alison discussed 5 generations of the Mann family, their contributions to Fairhope's development, and the artistic and intellectual environment of Fairhope. 1 hour video. From the Fa...

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10. PUB_0067_0071 - Newsletter

    Newsletter titled "The Colony Journal, News from the Lessee Community," dated Summer 2002. Published by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, this newsletter includes articles on the Colony Cemetery, Fairhope History, and other information. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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11. x.1.58-59 - Annual Report

    1972 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New Members-Gale W. Rowe, William A. Troup (son of Ivy Powell Norton and grandson of R. F. Powell), Bonnie Holt (daughter of Floy Schermerhorn, granddaughter of T. E. Mann and great granddaughter of S. S. Mann), Wilburn L. Odom. Nancy Burke, Elizabeth Mary Gaston, Eloise Nichols Rowe, Mary J. Troup, Lillian L. Rockwell, Edna Rockwell Harris. Deaths-Frances Gaston Crawford

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