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  1. 11.31.1-105 - Annual Report

    Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Annual Reports, 1944-1955. Some duplicates are included.

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  2. 6.1.1-108 - Correspondence

    Correspondence (N, O) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1928-1952.

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  3. FMH-A0005b - Audio, Digital

    Second part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation for a few minutes around the midway point. Approximately 48 minutes. Part 1 is FMH-A0005a. Topics include homes, hotels and businesses, social and atheletic acti...

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    FMH-A0005b
  4. FSTC-V0015 - Video, Digital

    Video interview dated September 16, 1994 with Gale Rowe who came to Fairhope with his parents in the late 1930's. He graduated from Fairhope High School in 1943 (where he met Eloise Nichols whom he later married), served in the Navy during WWII and the Korean War, and in between service stints, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1948. Upon retirement, the family returned to Fairhope where he was active in the Fairhope Single Tax Corpor...

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  5. PMG-1922-001-072 - Yearbook

    The Organic High School (located in Fairhope, Alabama) yearbook for 1922 (later called The Cinagro). The book is dedicated to Marietta L. Johnson, and include names and pictures of students and faculty, picture, poems, senior class will and a school calendar for the year. Sections on Activities and Sports are in this annual, and well as interesting advertisements from businesses which sponsoring the printing of the book. Organic School Seni...

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  6. x.1.16-17 - Annual Report

    1951 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. It was noted that the expenditure of the trust fund provided by the excess of rent reciepts over and above the amount needed to pay taxes and operating expenses should supply our lessees with public improvements and services in marked contrast to the improvements and services available in the non colony sections of the community where our public revenune plan is not in force. In this w...

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    x.1.16-18
  7. x.1.24-25 - Annual Report

    1955 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New members-M. O. Berglin, Bruce Evans, Jr. and Charles A. Kinney

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    x.1.24-26
  8. x.1.26-27 - Annual Report

    1956 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. "The Colony has no greater need than a continuing supply of new members. However it is essential that all new members be well grounded in the findamental principles of our pland and sincerely devoted to the achievement of our Colony aims and purposes." Bruce Evans, Jr. will take over teaching the Henry George classes. Fairhope 1894-1954 by Paul E. and Blanche R. Alyea is publish...

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    x.1.26-28
  9. x.1.28-29 - Annual Report

    1957 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New member-Beverly Brown Jennings (daughter of Frank L. and Minnie Brown) Death-Mrs. Isabella Payne

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    x.1.28-29
  10. x.1.32-33 - Annual Report

    1959 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Membership Committee formed. "In the interest of insuring a qualified membership the council adopted rules providing for the appoinment of a committee to examine prospective members, such committee to be appointed every year following the annual election of officers." Deaths-Jesse O. Stimpson, Thomas H. Bowen, Marmaduke Dyson

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    x.1.32-34
  11. x.1.34-35 - Annual Report

    1960 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Education and Cemetery Committees formed New Members-Raymond H. Lambert, John J. Burke, John Lawrence Monroe, Paul M. Gaston, Deaths-A. H. Mershon, Caroline Ann McConnell,

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    x.1.34-36
  12. x.1.36-37 - Annual Report

    1961 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The Executive Council was directed to consult with the municipal authorities and proceed with negotioations to municipilize the library and transfer it to the City of Fairhope. New Member-Arthur F. Gaston (son of E. B. and Clara Gaston) Deaths-Henry W. Rowe, Charles A. Kinney

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    x.1.36-38
  13. x.1.38-39 - Annual Report

    1962 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New members-Mrs. Ella Parker Kinney Death-Mrs. Margaret Dyson,

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    x.1.38-40
  14. x.1.40-41 - Annual Report

    1963 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. It was decided to make a general increase of sixteen percent in the rental charges on all Colony land, subject to some minor adjustments and equalizations.

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    x.1.40-42
  15. x.1.42-43 - Annual Report

    1964 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. In 1964 the City of Fairhope agreed to assume the civic and cultural obligation of providing Fairhope with Library service. New members-Phil Porter Dyson, Miss Dian Stitt Deaths-Capt. E. J. Roberts

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    x.1.42-44
  16. x.1.44-45 - Annual Report

    1965 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. There is a response to criticism of the Colony for not giving more generous support to various civic endeavors. It is important to keep an adequate amount of money in reserve in case assessed values in Baldwin County increase.

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    x.1.44-46
  17. x.1.46-47 - Annual Report

    1966 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. It was reported that progress had been made in developing a more effective means of determining the true rental values of land. Arthur P. Becker Ph. D., a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin suggested guides for determining the rental value of land. One was a study of current maket prices being paid for unimproved land in the vicinty of the colony owned land. New ...

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    x.1.46-48
  18. x.1.48-49 - Annual Report

    1967 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. It was reported that there was ample evidence justifying the belief that the increases in the 1967 rent charges were reasonable. The increase in rural rents amounted to 21.67%. New Members-May Moss Parker (daughter of Sam and Helen Porter Dyson), Nancye D. Jennings Deaths- Don E. Andrews, Lucille W. Brown, Lenore M. Wolcott, Elof M. Tuveson

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    x.1.48-50
  19. x.1.50-51 - Annual Report

    1968 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corportion. The Colony's office space was expanded into the first floor. Fire proof vault was installed. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in the Colony's favor in a suit to prevent the City of Fairhope from erecting a large recreation building on the bluff North of Fairhope. New Members-Ola Powell Malcolm ( daughter of R. F. and Laura A. Powell, sister of Mrs. Ivy Powell Norton), George C. Dys...

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    x.1.50-52
  20. x.1.52-53 - Annual Report

    1969 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. It was decided that calculations of leasehold rental charges be made, based on frontage rates in city and coutyry as determined by an appointed committee composed of R. Lucier Rockwell, C. W. Arnold and Sam Dyson. New Members-Mary P. Gaston, Lester I. Boone, Bart B. Jennings Deaths-Ivy Powell, Norton, Irene Lucier Buell, Ethel O. Darrow.

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    x.1.52-54

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