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1. 1.19.4 - Letter

   Undated letter (probably 1932-33) to members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation urging support of a constitutional amendment to change how taxes are paid in relation to rent. The FSTC financial safety is under threat due to the depression, the "vicious land system," the decrease in wharfage fees due to the opening of the Cochrane Bridge and the lack of a "modern, hard-surfaced through highway." Signed by all officers of the Fairhope Singl...

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2. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

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

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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. 33_2_067 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 171. Information about burials occuring after this Record Book was in use is included from other official sources. Grave 1: Linda K. Kasuba, died 1978 and Stanley J. Kasuba, firf 2008 Grave 2: Louella Morton Nichols, died 1939 Grave 3: Paul Nichols, Sr., died 1948 Grave 4: Clara P. Chamberlain, died 1945 and Frederick H. Houtkamp, died 19080 Grave 5: vacant Grave 6: Lester Irv...

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5. PMG_14282-14285 - Letter

   Letter dated March 19, 1927 from Paul Nichols, writing from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Miss Grace Rotzel in Fairhope, Alabama. (Miss Rotzel, a teacher at the Organic School) was a friend and former colleague of Nichols. Beginning in 1919, Paul NIchols (aka Pop Nichols, Professor Nichols) and family lived in Fairhope where he was assistant director at the School of Organic Education (Organic School). Nichols left teaching to move with the fam...

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6. PMG_14301-14306 - Letter

   Letter, poem and clipping dated May 7, 1934 by Eleanor Risley in Mena, Arkansas, writing to Paul NIchols and Louella Nichols in Fairhope, Alabama. Eleanor Risley and her husband Pierre (aka Peter) lived in Fairhope for a few years in the 1920s. Risley, a poet and author, included a newspaper clipping about her book "The Road to Wildcat" in this letter to the Nichols. Risley refers to "John" in the letter, who was the couple's old dog. F...

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7. PMG_14316-14319 - Letter

   Letter dated March 6, 1938 from Paul Nichols in Fairhope, Alabama to his wife Louella Nichols in Arkansas. Nichols is assistant director at the School of Organic Education (aka Organic School), and writes of financial problems at the school, as well as Mrs. Marietta Johnson's fragile health and other matters of controversy (about Charles Kinney) at the School. (Mrs. Johnson would die later in 1938.) Nichols includes newsy information about the...

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8. PMG_9000-9002 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph c.1940 of Paul Nichols (aka Rev. Paul Nichols, Sr.) and Louella Morton Nichols. Mr. Nichols was a teacher, and served as assistant director of the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama for approximately fifteen years. \From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Paul M. Gaston Collection.

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