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1. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

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

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2. 1.2.147-148 - Secretary's Report

   Secretary's Report of Cash Business for July 1895 Received on Stock: William Stimpson, Kearns, A. H. Mershon, N. Mershon, S. E. Mann, Stemerdink, A. M. Howell, James Bellangee, Charles A. Hall, J. H. Springer, J. M. Hislop, William Schemenour, J. H. Upton and L. G. Bostedo. Received for Wharf Fund: R. D. DeJournette, C. C. Foord, J. W. Frey, N. C. Dahl, O. N. Bancroft, J. H. Kendall, A. H Brockman, J. H. Kendall, William Schemenour, J. M Yea...

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3. 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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4. 1.2.55-57 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of Fairhope Industrial Association Executive Council date January 22, 1895. Present: Aug. Dellgren, Rachel Dellgren, Geo. Pollay, Sylvania Smith, J. P. Hunnel and E. B. Gaston. Members present: M. Michaels, E. Smith and C. L. Coleman. Report of Auditing Com. was that they had examined the report of the Secretary and found same correct, also recommending payment of certain bills which they had also audited. Report of com...

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5. 1.6.150-156 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated April 13, 1896. Report on Delinquent Members, George Lang, A. M Howell, J. D. Lucier, Edin Ferguson, H. R. Stockweather. Secretary instructed to write delinquents, that if they will pay up, penalties assessed will be remitted. A. H. Mershon reported on Fairhope road and sign boards specifying that signs should be 3' long, 1/2 " thick, painted with 2 coat...

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6. 1.6.157-160 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated April 13, 1896. Committee on Wharf reforted that Peter Wilson said the piles needed could be gotten from the land of Bostedo and Nusbaum and that he would cut and sharpen them form 10 cents apiece. Application for land by A. J. Cullen taken from table. Application for land by S. S. Mann on behalf of L. C. Mann and S. E. Mann taken laid over until S. S. Mann present and land pl...

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7. 1.6.163-165 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated April, 20, 1896. H. C. Schakel presented report of wharf business. Committee on Lamp reported having ordered lamp, not yet received. Committee on Press (S. S. Mann and E. B. Gaston) not ready to report. G. A. Mershon presented bid for road signs. Bid accepted. S. S. Mann presented plan for platting land north of Schalkenbach tract. Moved and carried that plan was accep...

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8. 1.6.181-182 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of a special meeting of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Purpose of the meeting to consider appraisement of lots not included in regular appraisement. Matter of rate of wharfage for car of watermelons discussed. Moved and carried that rate be fixed at 60 cents a car where help to load and unload was furnished. Attention was called to the fact that certain individuals did not think they had to pay wharfage. Moved and ca...

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9. 1.6.183-185 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated June 1, 1896. C. L. Coleman reported that the wharf car had been fixed with side boards for carrying melons, etc. All work on wharf had now been completed. H. C. Schakel reported on the business of the wharf. William Stimpson reported the appointment of G. A. Mershon to appraise the value of the lot condemned by Council for school purpose. S. Vander-Meulen reported as Supe...

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10. 1.6.56-59 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated December 2, 1895. Also attached is a report from the Sec. for December receipts and disbursements. Report made by Secretary and Treasurer. Secretary reported he contacted several lumber companies for prices of materials to complete the wharf. Wharf Committee instructed to draw up a contract to be entered into with wharfinger. Moved that the matter of assessments of lands be...

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11. 17.2.55 - Membership Documents

    Membership Certificate # 34 in the Fairhope Industrial Association issued to S. E. Mann on 2/28/1896 and exchanged for Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Membership Certificate #96 on 6/30/1913.

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12. 3.2_074-076 - Letter

    Letter dated December 21, 1932 to E. B. Gaston from S. E. Mann writing from Gladbrook, Iowa. Mann is the son of Shuh Strait Mann, a founder of Fairhope. Mann's letter is in support of the now mature Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. He also discusses the current state of the economy and the plight of people. He says "In the midst of plenty, we have hunger, want, Farmers losing their homes and put off by foreclosure of mortgages. Seven mill...

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13. 3.2.1-120 - Correspondence

    Fairhope Single Tax Corporation correspondence (L-M) including; J. G. Lorenzen, J. E. Lawrence, J. Francis Lemon, B. W. Lindberg, Mary Heath Lee, Henry C. Littlefield, Emilia Loos, Charles S. Lowell, Nick J. Ludwig, S. E. Mann, L. C. Mann, Joseph N. McAleer, Thomas G. Meinema, Alexander J. Melville,T. H. Molton, J. L. Linn and L. J. Murphy.

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14. 3.26.1-51 - Letter

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation 1930-1936 (Me-Mu) by E. B. Gaston, secretary, mostly letters of inquiry about acquiring leases in Fairhope or receiving information for research/school projects about the Fairhope Colony. Of special interest: 3.26.4-5 letter to Fairhope Single Tax Corporation membership from Alex Melville (separately cataloged). 3.26.16 is a letter to L. L. Miller from Gaston in which Gaston mentions the...

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15. 43_02_001 - Letter

    Letter dated May 16, 1894 from E. B. Gaston, Secretary of the Fairhope Industrial Association, to T. E. Mann (Thomas Erly Mann), a member of the Association's Executive Council. Gaston is responding to the receipt of the membership application for S. E. Mann, T. E. Mann's brother. (Shuah S. Mann, father of T. E. and S. E.) is a Trustee of the Association.) Gaston writes tongue-in-cheek that "I think we will have to call our town Mannville." ...

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16. 43_03_001-010 - Letter

    Letter written by Shuah S. Mann in Fairhope, Alabama dated February 13, 1899 to his son Thomas Erly Mann (T. E. Mann) in Gladbrook, Iowa. S. S. Mann writes about family estate business matters concerning another son, Senator Etna Mann (S. E. Mann). Shuah Mann says that Etna has has a "long-strong pull at the family estate (and) I don't wonder at some of the children getting jealous of the opportunities granted him whilst his family appreciate...

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17. 43_18_001-004 - Letter

    Letter dated July 15, 1914 written by T. E. Mann in Gladbrook, Iowa to his father Shuah S. Mann and stepmother Mary, who were visiting T. E.'s youngest brother S. M. Mann in Oregon. T. E. Mann is writing his father on behalf of himself and brothers L. C. Mann and S. E. Mann about the controversy in the Fairhope Colony after the adoption of the Somers System land appraisal formula in 1914. A group of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation lessees le...

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18. FSTC-1341-1342 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph, no date, of five Mann brothers, the sons of Shuah S. Mann and Sarah Allen Mann. There were eleven children from this marriage. After Sarah's death in 1876, Shuah Mann remarried twice. Shuah S. Mann was a founder of the single tax colony in Fairhope, Alabama. A detailed history of the Mann family and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation is available in Alison Holt Knight's (S. S. Mann's great, great grandfather) 2013 book "Salubrio...

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19. ii.10.27 - Newspaper Article

    3 newspaper articles, 1 from Little Rock, Arkansas, 1 from Randolph County, Arkansas saying that the location committee (James Bellangee, S. S. Mann and S. E. Mann) for the Fairhope Industrial Association are in the area looking for a location for their colony. Each article explains the plans of the Fairhope Industrial Association.

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20. ii.2.70 - Receipt

    Receipt for five dollars for payment for a share of stock in the Fairhope Industrial Association for Senator Etna Mann received by James Bellangee on June 6, 1894.

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