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Rockwell, Ruth E. |
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10.13.1-108 - Correspondence
Miscellaneous material of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation concerning how rents are calculated on Colony lands. Includes a publication written by R. Lucier Rockwell and Ruth E. Rockwell detailing the Somers method used by the FSTC. The affadavit of Wayne C. Curtis, Ph.D., an economics professor is included, as well as minutes and correspondence of the Rent Study Committe of the FSTC and other detailed data regarding rent calculations.
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7.20.1-192 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1955-1971, (C-D). Includes general correspondence of the Corporation. 7.20 4-5 and 7.20. 89 are cataloged separately and provide insights into Fairhope benefactor, Joseph Fels. 7.20 includes correspondence between C. A. Gaston and John R. Chadwick, who works at The Birmingham News. Chadwic, Gaston, and Frances Gaston Crawford are discussing the possible sale of the Fairhope Courier ...
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8.11.1-167 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes and Council Proceedings of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1975-1977, (Box 2 of 3, with 8.10 and 8.12 comprising the other two boxes).
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8.13.1-106 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1979-1993, letter A.
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8.3.1-107 - Correspondence
Correspondence (N-R) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1951-1971.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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8.9.1-114 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1966-1997, letters B-H. Includes general FSTC business correspondence. 8.9.61 lists the 1979 FSTC Board and Committees. 8.9.83-88 is "The One-Mile Railroad," by Ernest B. Ehlers and Pinky Bass about the Peoples' Rail Road. 8.9.98 are FSTC Execultive Council Minutes of meeting in September, 1979, in reaction to Hurricane Frederick.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH_0586-0605 - Photograph, Digital
Assorted photographs of Fairhope Single Tax Meetings and events. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.
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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...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
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FSTC-V0040 - Video, Digital
Video interview dated September 2, 1994 of Ouida Swanson Berglin who came to Fairhope in 1926 from Monroeville, Alabama. She married Lavigne Berglin, Sr. on June 15, 1927, the same day the Cochrane Bridge (Causeway) opened. Known as "Honey" to her family, she was a school teacher, artist, writer and poet. She worked at the family-owned Fairhope Ice and Creamery (started by her father-in-law A.O. Berglin) and was the activities director at Rosem...
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x.1.58-59 - Annual Report
1972 Annual Report of The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New Members-Gale W. Rowe, William A. Troup (son of Ivy Powell Norton and grandson of R. F. Powell), Bonnie Holt (daughter of Floy Schermerhorn, granddaughter of T. E. Mann and great granddaughter of S. S. Mann), Wilburn L. Odom. Nancy Burke, Elizabeth Mary Gaston, Eloise Nichols Rowe, Mary J. Troup, Lillian L. Rockwell, Edna Rockwell Harris. Deaths-Frances Gaston Crawford
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.1.60-61 - Annual Report
1974 Annual Report for The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New Members-Edna Lucille Tuveson (wife of Elof M. Tuveson), Lawrence P. Thomas (nephew of Claude W. Arnold), Donald W. Gooden, L. E. Dougherty, Faye S. Odom, Linda W. Rockwell, Jerre L. Yeager Death-Paul E. Alyea
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x.1.62-63 - Annual Report
1975 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New Members-Blanche R. Alyea, John H. Wienand, Jr. (Uncle of Beverly B. Jennings), Frederick L. Boone (son of Lester and Joy Boone), Harford Field, Dorothy Swedelius Spater, Frances Green Dyson, Margaret H. Gooden, Jo B. Dougherty. Deaths-Marguerite Dyson, Frances Pitman
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.1.64-67 - Annual Report
1976 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. New Members-Margery Wienand, Bertha Dyson, Sherry W. Hoffman, Pamela S. Boone
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.1.68-71 - Annual Report
1977 Annual Report of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Deaths-Marvin O. Berglin, Abe D. Waldauer New Members-Curtis Michael Arnold, William E. Baldwin, Ernest E. Brown Jr., Thomas H. Brown, E. B. Gwin Jr., Matthew Harris, Tamberlaine Harris, Robert W. Mitchell, Robert G. Mason, William B. Nobles
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x.3.104 - Letter
Letter dated 4/19/1977 to the members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Sam Dyson and Ruth E. Rockwell notifying them of a public hearing scheduled for 4/26/1977 regarding the three Bills which have been introduced to the State Legislature. Members are urged to communicate with the legislators.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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x.3.149 - Letter
Letter dated 4/29/1977 to the members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Ruth E. Rockwell informing them of a "members only" meeting to discuss past, present and possible future actions effecting the corporation to be held 5/1/1977.
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x.3.18 - Letter
Form letter dated 9/8/1975 to Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Ruth E. Rockwell, secretary of the Corporation. A group of lessees has attempted to "influence the State Legistlature to introduce legislation aimed at only the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation which would place such restrictions on it as to ulitmately cause its death or certainly restrict its operation to such an extent that it would no longer be a single tax d...
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x.3.19 - Letter
Letter dated 11/25/1975 to Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Ruth E. Rockwell, secretary of the Corporation. "Very determined" lessees have made complaints about the Corporation to the Alabama State Legistlature, resulting in the formation of an Interim Committee to investigate the those complaints against the FSTC. Rockwell is notifying the membership of the time and place of the first meeting, and encouraging any member w...
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x.3.2-3 - Letter
Letter dated 4/25/1975 to the Lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Executive Council enclosing the financial statement and report from 1974. The Council is aware of the recent dissatisfaction of some of the lessees with regards to some of the policies of the corporation. The Council will not yield to concerted efforts by a few dissident lessees to stir up resentment. They ask the lessees to let them know if they feel that the C...
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