Johnson, Axil | Fairhope Single Tax Corporation

1.12.7 - Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes dated 12/16/1922 of the directors of the People's Railroad Company to discuss an extention to the Pier Head. $1,400.50 is authorized to be paid to the Fairhope Transportation & Excursion Company for the job. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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1.13.34-35 - Letter

Undated letter to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding an upcoming referendum to change the membership application back to the "one which was in use for so long" rather than the one currently in use which is "so distasteful to everyone and so injurious to our progress and prosperity." From the correspondence of Anne B. Call

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1.14.2 - Letter

Letter dated 1/28/1929 to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from E. B. Gaston, Secretary submitting to them a full report of preceedings at a special meeting held on 1/26/1929. Prior to the meeting, on 1/21/1929, a petition was presented to the Council calling for a referendum election to vote on whether the present form of application for lease be discontinued and the form which was used previously should be reinstated. At a ...

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1.2.12-14 - Membership List

Fairhope Single Tax Corporation list of members and addresses dated May 13, 1932.

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1.2.3-11 - Membership List

List of Fairhope Single Tax Corportation members and addresses dated 2/7/1935. (several copies)

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30.14.1-29 - Correspondence

Papers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1929. Included is the Treasurer's Report for that month, resignation letter of A. E. Schalkenbach as a trustee of the FSTC and Secretary E. B. Gaston's response, official report of the annual FSTC elections, a petition and notice about a referendum election concerning the application for FSTC leases, a Statement to Members of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation concerning the amendment, a ...

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30.19.1-19 - Correspondence

Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1929. Included are petitions to place Delia K. Bancroft in the February 1929 annual election ballot as a trustee of the FSTC and a petition for a referendum election concerning the applictaion for leases. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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33_2_126 - Cemetery Record Book

Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 381. Some information is provided from other official sources. Grave 1: Larry H. Harper, died 1935 Grave 2: James Edward, died 1937 Grave 3: Lottie Edward, died 1950 Grave 4: Reserved for Axil Johnson (Nettie F. Johnson would be buried here in 1970) Grave 5: Carolyn Osgood Smith Whittier, died 1934 Grave 6: Andrew N. Whittier, died 1937 Grave 7: Whittier Galbraith, died 1936 ...

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33_2_130 - Cemetery Record Book

Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 391 SW and 391 SE. Some information is from other official sources. 391 SW Grave 1: Axil Johnson, died 1965 Grave 2: Baby of Dwight Jones, Jr. (no death date) and Mr. Hulbert Jones, died 1946 Grave 3: Carrie W. Harwood, died 1939 Grave 4: Anah M. Tiffany, died 1942 and her daughter Dorothy Tiffany Rittenhouse, died 2005 Grave 5: Ethel Gealy Council, died 1937 Grave 6: Reserved...

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34_72_084-088 - Photograph, Digital

Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 335 Fairhope Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. Built in 1934 (Fairhope Courier 8/16/1934 - note correction of the date on the Historic Sites Form) by the partners of the Fairhope Coal & Supply Company (Marmaduke Dyson, J. E. Lawrence, Axil Johnson, Ed Sheldon and Robert Stapleton) which had been in business since 1924. Each partner, individually, was a contractor or supply agent for buil...

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5.1.1-213 - Letter

Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1927-1953, (I, J and K). Most correspondence is of general FSTC business (rents in arrears, inquiries about single tax, tax returns). In 5.1.80 C. A. Gaston writes about Fairhope's early residents, saying those who came to Fairhope were "advanced thinkers and their various eccentricities made them stand out as distrinct from the common run of citizen." He called early Fairhope a "crank...

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FMH-A0004b - Audio, Digital

Interview (audio) dated February 20, 1980 and April 28, 1980 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. This is the second part of an interview with Hazele Williams Payne. The first part can be heard at FMH-A0004a in these Archives, followed by other interviews at FMH-A0007a and FMH-A0007b. Mrs. Payne recounts a wide range of topics about life in Fairhope including people, parties, dances, entertainment, b...

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FMH-A0007a - Audio, Digital

Interview (audio) Part 1 dated April 28, 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. Others interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007b. In this interview, three of W. A. Dealy's comic poems are read by the interviewer and Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant details about early Fairhope. The first poem ...

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FMH-A0007b - Audio, Digital

Interview (audio) dated 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). Part 2. The interviewer is not identified. Other interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007a. In this interview, the rest of the 1935 "Merry Christmas Folks" poem (started in FMH-A0007a) written by W. A. Dealy is read by the interviewer. Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant...

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viii.4.1-61 - Letter

Fairhope Colony Archives Correspondence 1921-1922, box viii, folder 4, pages 1-61. This folder includes correspondence to and from E. B. Gaston, about parcels of land for lease, descriptions of such as well as prices for houses, outbuildings and other improvements on Colony lands and requests for rentals. (Correspondence with people with last names J-L)

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x.1.18-19 - Annual Report

1952 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. No new members. A. O. Berglin died.

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