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1. 33_2_158 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 442 SW and 443. Lot 442 includes spaces for the family of Jesse Elwood Gilpin and spaces for the Stafford family including John Stafford Parker. Spaces for Ernest Berry Gaston II, Max P. McGill and Leah Gaston McGill are in this lot. Lot 443 has graves for Sylvia Logsdon, died 1957, and Walter V. Logsdon, died 1927. From the Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book, Fairhope Single ...

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2. 5.10.1-234 - Letter

   Correspondence of secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1952, (letter W). Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC: letters of inquiry about the Colony, letters of inquiry about leasing lands, records, rents and other day-to-day business correspondence. In addition, there is correspondence between C. A. Gaston and Fiske Warren (and other Warren family members) about pro...

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3. 5.4.1-243 - Correspondence

   Correspondence (Ma-Mc) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1932-1954.

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4. 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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5. 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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6. FSTC-0255 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph c 1932 of the E.B. Gaston family in Fairhope, Alabama. The picture includes E.B. and Clara Gaston, their five children (Frances, James, Cornelius, Leah and Arthur), their spouses and children. The sign in the middle reads "Fairhope The First Fireplace Built in Fairhope." E. B. and Clara Gaston moved their family to the first home occupied in the Fairhope Colony on January 24, 1895. Left to Right: James Ernest Gaston, Sr. Jame...

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7. PMG-1000 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated June 1932 of the E. B. Gaston family in Fairhope, Alabama. This is a duplicate of FSTC-0255, but a better quality image. The picture included E. B. and Clara Gaston, their five adult children (Frances, James, Cornelius, Leah and Arthur), with spouses and children. The sign in the middle reads "Fairhope The First Fireplace built in Fairhope." E. B. and Clara Gaston moved their family into the first home built in the Fairhope ...

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8. PMG-1725 - Photograph, Digital

   Wedding Announcement with photograph of Mate E. McGill Benshoof (aka Mary Edith McGill Benshoof) and Perry Benshoof in December, 1933. As Mrs. McGill, she was employed as a portrait photographer both in Nebraska and later in Mobile, Alabama where she was in business with her son. Max P. McGill. She was the mother-in-law of Leah Gaston McGill (who was a daughter of Fairhope town founder E. B. Gaston). From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairho...

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9. PMG-1791 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of a street in Mobile, Alabama where Max P McGill's photography business was located. McGill was the husband of Leah Gaston McGill, and son-in-law of Fairhope found E. B. Gaston. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

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10. PMG_9025-9026 - Photograph, Digital

    Two pictures, c. 1920s. Photograph of Arthur Fairhope "Spider" Gaston, Cornelius A. Gaston and Max P. McGill in the snow. Photograph of Cornelius A. Gaston swimming with children. These children are likely those of his sister Leah Gaston McGill and her husband Max P. McGill. Cornelius A. "Cornie" Gaston was the son of Fairhope founder E. B. Gaston and succeeded his father as Secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Cornie was...

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11. PMG-9032 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph c. late 1920s of a family checking the crab traps on a pier on Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. Cornelius A. Gaston stands in the center with a crab and net. His sister Leah Gaston McGill is standing at the right helping her son. Max P. McGill, Leah's husband, is on the left with another child. This picture shows the types of swimsuits worn by women, men and children in the 1920s. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Arch...

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