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1. 1.10.105-106 - Legal Documents

   James Bellangee's copy of a subpoena for Melville vs Fairhope Single Tax Corporation suit dated 5/4/1914 including names of others summoned to appear.

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2. 29.25.1-13 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous correspondence and documents of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 1934 through December 1934. Documents include FSTC lessees' applications to the Home Owner's Loan Corporation and Newsdom's Second New Deal Poll of The Newspaper Industry, which polled the opinions of newspaper editors and publishers regarding the New Deal. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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3. 30.22.1-14 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1927. Included is a resolution adopted by the FSTC about roads legislation, the Eastern Shore Boulevard Bill, coming up in the state legislature, several letters about the accident Mrs. L. E. Brown had on the Fairhope Wharf which she attributed to poor lighting and wants compensation, and other general FSTC correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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4. 40_46_001-006 - Booklet

   Copy a The Olney Current, a booklet published by the Olney Friends School, a Quaker School in Barnesville, Ohio. Dated 1993. An article written by Fairhoper Ruth Battey Rockwell, is about Reuben L. Rockwell on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Mr. Rockwell was a graduate of the Olney School. His experiences in Fairhope and Costa Rica are included, as well as details about his family, various jobs and other details of his long life. From ...

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5. 7.3.1-99 - Letter

   Corresponsdence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1932-1951, (Ro-Ry).

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6. FMH_0158 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated 1915-1916 of the Alexander Brothers Store on South Section Street in Fairhope, Alabama. Owned by Robert (Bob) Alexander and Joseph Alexander, this grocery and sundries store was located in the bottom floor newly constructed Knights of Pythias Building. Robert Alexander is on the right, and his nephew Polk Alexander is behind the scales in the rear. The Alexander Brothers Store was in business about a year. The brothers so...

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7. FMH-A0004b - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) dated February 20, 1980 and April 28, 1980 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. This is the second part of an interview with Hazele Williams Payne. The first part can be heard at FMH-A0004a in these Archives, followed by other interviews at FMH-A0007a and FMH-A0007b. Mrs. Payne recounts a wide range of topics about life in Fairhope including people, parties, dances, entertainment, b...

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8. 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.

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9. FSTC-V0020 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated October 3, 1994 of Roberta Billie and Mildred Berglin. Mildred Berglin moved from Colorado to Fairhope in 1928. She was one of twelve students who graduated from Fairhope High School in 1934. Roberta Billie came to Fairhope in June of 1934 from Texas. Her family spent that summer in Fairhope and decided to stay. Mrs. Billie was Frank Stewart, The Picture Man's grandniece. Mrs. Billie and Mrs. Berglin talk about ...

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10. FSTC-V0021 - Video, Digital

    Video interview dated February 2, 1995 with H. Reed Myers and Pierce E. "Bud" Frederick (1923-2000); interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Pierce "Bud" Frederick appears on the right in the interview. He speaks first. Dr. Frederick was born in Fairhope in 1923. His parents were Paul A. Frederick (1894-1972) and Esther Pierce Frederick (1897-1997). His mother was the niece of Marietta Johnson; Pierce and his brother Pa...

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11. FSTC-V0029 - Video, Digital

    Video interview with Jeanette Bonner on March 7, 1997 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Mrs. Bonner is the great granddaughter of John and Nancy Lewis, the freed-slave couple who raised their family in this area. Nancy Lewis, then a widow, sold the improvements on the land to the Fairhope Industrial Associaton in 1895. Ms. Bonner is the daughter of Louise Lewis. She discussed living in the same house on McDonald Lane her enti...

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12. FSTC-V0037 - Video, Digital

    This video has two oral histories: First is Ruth E. Rockwell and starting at 1 hour, 31 minutes and 57 seconds is Philip McCarthy. Note: Search terms listed below this entry include terms from both videos and are not able to be cataloged separately due to original format. INTERVIEW of Ruth E. Rockwell dated May 12, 1994. Mrs. Rockwell's family moved from Iowa to Fairhope in 1913 after learning about the community from other family member...

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13. PMG-4749-4759 - Documents

    Clippings, program, letter and speech for the September 1, 1974 dedication of the Gaston Building in Fairhope, Alabama. This structure was built in 1924 at 336 Farirhope Avenue, and was used and the offices for the Fairhope Courier, the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation; other space in the building was rented to various businesses. On the fiftieth anniversary of the building in 1974, it was formally dedicated to E. B. Gaston, co-founder of Fairh...

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14. PUB_0011_0013 - Newsletter

    Volume 1, Number 3 of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Colony News newsletter dated Fall Quarter 1994. This four-part series was published in conjunction with the Centennial of the founding of the Fairhope Colony. The years between 1908-1932 are highlighted, and include information on the parks, gullies, lands, the founding of the municipality of Fairhope, the Somers System, the Melville Suit, the School of Organic Education (aka Organic S...

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15. QuakerFF_0028-0029 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Preparatory Meeting of Friends dated June 7, 1922. William B. Stanley is appointed as treasurer, and the balance in the Friends account is $6.00. The group needs to raise funds and submitted an apportionment list of members and how the responsibility for paying or raising the money will be determined. Note: The list not only provides a roster of Friends (male) members and the respective portion required of...

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16. QuakerFF_0039-0043 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes for all Fairhope Preparatory Meeting of Friends (Quakers) meeting held in 1926. Meetings were held in January, February, March, April, May, July, November and December. The Minutes report the general business of the Fairhope Friends, including Treasurer's reports and annual audit, selection of the clerk and reports of the House and Grounds committee, business with the Stillwater, Ohio Friends and other business. The Januar...

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17. QuakerFF_0043-0048 - Meeting Minutes

    Meeting Minutes for meetings conducted in 1927 by the Fairhope Preparatory Meeting of Friends. Monthly meetings took place except in April, 1927. The Minutes report the general business of the Fairhope Friends, including reports of the Treasurer and annual audit, selection of the clerk, the House and Grounds committee, business with the Stillwater Ohio Friends and other business. The February, 1927 meeting includes a revised apportionment...

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18. viii.12.88-89 - Newspaper Article

    Torn, partial newspaper article, likely from the Fairhope Courier newspaper around 1913-1915, concerning the People's Railroad Company, and the need to increase subscriptions and straighten out the railroad to run due east from Ring farm. Contributors are listed, including the Fairhope Country Club.

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19. x.4.14-16 - Membership List

    List of Resident Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1975

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