Related Records

1. 35_1_001_002 - Documents

   City of Fairhope Proclamation by Mayor James P. Nix declaring September 2, 1984 as Henry George Day in Fairhope, Alabama. It was the 144th anniversary of George's birth. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
2. FSTC-0225 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of Mayor James P. Nix in November, 1974 signing a proclamation recognizing the 80th anniversary of the founding of Fairhope. Standing behind Mr. Nix, left to right are: Daphne Brown Anderson Marvin Berglin Arthur Fairhope "Spider" Gaston Dr. Cornelius Alonzo Gaston Reuben Rockwell Helen Belle Rockwell Edna Lucille Tuveson From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. FSTC-V0001 - Video, Digital

   Video titled "Fairhope: The First Century 1894-1994." This film was produced by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in 1995, during the Centennial year of it's founding. Written, directed, and produced by Dean Mosher and narrated by Graham Timbes. 31 min. Story of a century where an idea became a colony and a colony became a city: Fairhope. Begun in Des Moine, Iowa and moved to Alabama, our founders believed their idea had "a fairhope of...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
4. FSTC-V0014 - Video, Digital

   Video interview with Charles Ingersoll (Charles Bernard Ingersoll) dated 1992/01/04. Interviewed by Flo Simmons and Ruth Rockwell. NOTE: This video runs 1 hour and 17 minutes when a partial interview of Gale Rowe starts at that point in error. Mr. Rowe's entire interview is available at FSTC-V0015 or by searching his name.. Charles Ingersoll was born in Fairhope. His family came to Baldwin County as early as 1840. His parents were Fred ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
5. FSTC-V0025 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated March 9, 1995 with Timothy P. Kant; interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Mr. Kant was born in Newark, New Jersey and moved with his parents to Spanish Fort, Alabama in 1967. He graduated from Fairhope High School and Auburn University with a B.S. in ornamental horticulture. He worked at Holmberg Nursery in Fairhope, Gulf Farms in Foley, and then, in 1983, was hired by Mayor James P. Nix to start a ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
6. FSTC-V0033 - Video, Digital

   Video interview with James P. Nix on January 27, 1995; interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Mr. Nix was born in Robertsdale, Alabama in 1937 and moved with his family to Fairhope in 1955 to be closer to his father's work at Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile, Alabama. He was in private business, and by 1968, decided to run for the Fairhope city council. He served on that body until deciding to run for mayor in 1972.. He...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
7. FSTC-V0036 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated January 2, 1992 of Bruce Evans, Jr. and Paula Alyea Evans who moved to Fairhope, Alabama in 1952. Bruce Evans, who taught mathematics and statistics at Murphy High School in Mobile, was also the cashier for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. He graduated from the Hentry George School of Social Sciences in New York. Paula Evans taught economics at Fairhope High School. She was the daughter of Paul E. and Blanche...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
8. PMG-4152-4175 - Correspondence

   Correspondece dated mostly 1974 and 1984 regarding the 30th and 40th anniversaries of the death of Lt. Ernest B. Gaston II. Barney Gaston was the grandson of Fairhope founder E. B. Gaston, and the son of Arthur Fairhope Gaston and Mary Price Gaston. He died on August 26, 1944 when his P-38 fighter crashed after he attacked a line of tanks nearing the village of Sivry-Courtry France during World War II. Information in this file includes cor...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
9. PMG-4774-4781 - Article

   Article titled "U.S. Journal: Fairhope, Ala. Control" by Calvin Trillin as published in the New Yorker magazine on June 11, 1979. Topic is the Fairhope Public Library, and the controversy about book selection between librarian Claire Oaks and the Fairhope mayor and city council. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

   Record Type: Archives and Videos