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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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    1.2.12-14
  2. 1.2.18-19 - Meeting Minutes

    Fairhope Industrial Association Meeting Minutes of January 31, 1894. Meeting of those interested in a proposed colony and the Committee of 5 that had been appointed at previous meeting. Object of meeting was adoption of Constitution. After thorough discussion the Constitution was adopted. Next order of business was the election of officers and the following were elected unanimously: President: L. R. Clements Vice President: Ed. A. Otl Secr...

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    1.2.18-19
  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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    1.2.3-5
  4. 1.2.31-33 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated August 10, 1894, in Des Moines, Iowa (exact location not provided). In the absence of the President, the meeting called to order by the Secretary. T. E. Mann was voted unanimously chosen to preside as Chairman. The location report of S.S. Mann and J. Bellangee was duly presented with other matters pertaining to same. After hearing the report of the committee, the Secretary was...

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    1.2.31-33
  5. 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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    1.2.55-57
  6. 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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    1.6.183-185
  7. 1.6.75-83 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting MInutes dated 12/23/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. The matter of acquiring an adjacent 320 acres for the FIA by Mr. Bostedo and Nusbaum was discussed. They are willing to purchase the land and hold it untile the FIA is able to pay them for it. In this business, Bostedo writes that he wants to review the 'papers' before sending bank drafts for the payment. He is using Mr. George Hoyle as his agen...

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    1.6.75-83
  8. 17.2.24 - Membership Documents

    Membership Certificated # 13 in the Fairhope Industrial Association issued to Thomas E. Mann on 8/19/1895. The certificate was lost, and it is replaced with Membership Certificate # 153 in the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 6.3.1905 by a sworn and notarized affadavit dated 4/25/1927.

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    17.2.24
  9. 1895_Courier_Page_06 - Newspaper Article

    Clipping from the January 15, 1895 Fairhope Courier announcing that the paper was printed from new type supplied by T. E. Mann and L. C. Mann, and set by J. P. Hunnel (aka Jimmy Hunnel). Note: the Fairhope pioneers had only arrived two months earlier, and this was the already third edition of the Courier published from Battles, Alabama. The paper was printed in Mobile, but with the new type, was now being set in the Colony. Jimmy Hunnel wa...

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  10. 30.24.1-12 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1926. Included is a letter to T. E. Mann about the quitclaim deed of the S. S. Mann corporation to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, a letter to Norman Maddocks who is taking up the lease, several letters about taxes, and references by E. B. Gaston about his upcoming trip to the International Single Tax Conference that he and Mrs. Gaston will be attending in Copenhagen, his "Gre...

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  11. 30.28.1-28 - Correspondence

    General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1926. Of interest are letters and a petition (30.28.8-12, 30.28.14-16) between E. B. Gaston and T. E. Mann regarding the sale of property by the S. S. Mann Corporation to the FSTC. T. E. Mann, son of S. S. Mann gives interesting background about early land transactions by his father who was interested in giving land to the Colony. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpo...

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  12. 30.31.1-22 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated May 1926. Among the correspondence are letters from T. E. Mann about transferring the lease of Mann land (S. S. Mann Corporation) to Norman Maddocks and wife. T. E. Mann wants Gaston to make certain that the title on the property is appropriately registered at the Baldwin County title office. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  13. 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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  14. 30.4.1-17 - Correspondence

    Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated April 16-30, 1926. Of special interest are several letters between T. E. Mann in Iowa and E. B. Gaston regarding acquisition of land for the FSTC. Thomas Early Mann's father S. S. Mann was a major founder and contributor to Fairhope. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  15. 30.42.1-13 - Correspondence

    General corrpesondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 1926. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  16. 30.6.1-22 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated April 1927 and May 1927. Included are letters to T. E. Mann and his daughter Floy Mann Schermerhorn, both of Gladbrook, Iowa, notifying them that their applications for membership to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation had been accepted, Pages 16-22 include letters between W. A. Benson and O. K. Cummings about a conflict about purchasing colony land. E. B. Gaston reponds to Ben...

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  17. 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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  18. 43_01_001-43_01_002 - Letter

    Letter dated March 8, 1892 from J. W. Breidenthal in Enterprise, Kansas to T. E. Mann in Gladbrook, Iowa. Breidenthal, Secretary of the Kansas-Sinaloa Investment Company, is acknowleging Mann's contribution of $10 to the Improvment Fund for the ditch at the Topolobampo Bay Colony in Mexico. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.

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    43_01_001
  19. 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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    43_02_001
  20. 43_04_001-43_04_002 - Letter

    Letter dated March 30, 1912 from Marietta Johnson, Director of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama to T. E. Mann (Thomas Erly Mann) in Gladbrook, Iowa. Mrs. Johnson is sending Mann information about the school. The reverse side has testimonials about the Organic School. Mrs. Johnson used stationery printed for the "Comings Memorial School of Organic Education," which was how the school was first named to acknowledge the suppo...

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    43_04_001

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