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1. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

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

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2. 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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3. 30.25.1-19 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1926. Included is a long letter from W. S. Bryant of the Home Telephone Company in Mobile encouraging the FSTC, the owner of the local phone service, to consider doing business with his company; he makes references to the Bell Telephone system and anti-trust problems that company is having. Also included is a letter from Floy Mann Schermerhorn, the granddaughter of S. S. Mann, one...

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4. 30.35.1-15 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1926. 30.35.4 is a letter to E. B. Gaston from T. E. Mann in Gladbrook Iowa dated November 3, 1926, in which he asks Gaston about the possibilty of acquiring accommodations in Fairhope for a few months (Gaston responds at 30.35.6). Mann is a son of Fairhope co-founder S. S. Mann, and supported the Colony over the years. Mann references his wife, his daughter Floy Mann ...

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5. 30.6.1-22 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated April 1927 and May 1927. Included are letters to T. E. Mann and his daughter Floy Mann Schermerhorn, both of Gladbrook, Iowa, notifying them that their applications for membership to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation had been accepted, Pages 16-22 include letters between W. A. Benson and O. K. Cummings about a conflict about purchasing colony land. E. B. Gaston reponds to Ben...

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6. 3.26.1-51 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation 1930-1936 (Me-Mu) by E. B. Gaston, secretary, mostly letters of inquiry about acquiring leases in Fairhope or receiving information for research/school projects about the Fairhope Colony. Of special interest: 3.26.4-5 letter to Fairhope Single Tax Corporation membership from Alex Melville (separately cataloged). 3.26.16 is a letter to L. L. Miller from Gaston in which Gaston mentions the...

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7. 7.1.1-167 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1921-1955, (Sa-Si).

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8. FMH_2228-2229 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph by Floy Mann Schermerhorn dated March 26, 1927 of her daughter Bonnie Schermerhorn (Bonnie Schermerhorn Holt) and Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946). Mr. Stuart and Bonnie are pictured at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Bonnie was the great-granddaughter of Shuah Strait Mann, a founder of the Fairhope. Mr. Mann and James Bellangee comprised the locating committee that toured five states in the summer of 1894 searching f...

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9. FSTC-V0035 - Video, Digital

   Video interview (26 minutes) with Bonnie Holt dated February 2, 1995 in her home in Fairhope, Alabama. Bonnie is a fourth generation member of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Her great grandfather, Shuah Strait Mann, was a member of the Fairhope Industrial Association; he and James Bellangee were the two-man locating committee that toured five states in the summer of 1894 searching for the site to establish the Fairhope Single Tax Colony. ...

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