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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. 1.2.12-14 - Membership List

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

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    1.2.12-14
  3. 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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    1.2.3-5
  4. 2.1.34-38 - Yearbook

    Year Book 1907-1908, Women's Clubs, Fairhope, Alabama including; Fifth Thursday Club, Village Improvement Club, Henry George Club and the Arts and Crafts Society.

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    2.1.34-38
  5. 2.1.98-105 - Yearbook

    Year Book of Women's Clubs, Fairhope, Alabama, 1909-1910, including; Fifth Thursday Club, Village Improvement Club, Mother's Round Table, Henry George Club, and the Arts and Crafts Society.

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    2.1.98-105
  6. 29.24.1-20 - Correspondence

    General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation and of E. B. Gaston dated September 1935. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. .

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  7. 30.41.1-42 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 1929 and October 1929. The Christian Science Monitor requested information about the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for an article. There are letters between Gaston and journalist Carolyn Cobb about this request and 30.40.39-41 is a statement Gaston sent her. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  8. 32_1_1-294 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation about payment of taxes and rents due from lessees on Colony lands, dated 1932-1934. FSTC Treasurer R. E. L. Connolly died suddenly in October, 1932 and E. C. Wolcott assumed the role. There are references which Wolcott makes about acclimating to the job and reviewing information with care. Letters from the Baldwin County Building and Loan Association are scattered throughout this file...

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  9. 33_2_039 - Cemetery Record Book

    Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of burials in Lot 103 Grave 1: Drumm, Catherine Williams, died 1998 Grave 2: Rev. Laird Snell, died 1963 Grave 3: Alice Christopher Snell, died 1945 These burials are recorded in other official documents after this Cemetery Book was no longer used. From the Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

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    33_2_039
  10. 34_22_001_027 - Book

    Program for the dedication of the Christmas Tree park in memory of Joseph Christopher (1882-1929). The event was on Washington's Birthday in February, 1931 and included songs and poems, as well as tributes to Mr. Christopher from town leaders and friends. The event took place in Knoll Park in Fairhope, Alabama where the memorial tree was planted. This small bound book was reprinted from the Fairhope Courier article (February 26, 1931 issue...

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  11. 38_3_001-018 - Article

    Article dated 2016 by Jeroen Staring titled "Marietta L. Johnson's Early 'Organic Education' Work." The article appears in Case Studies Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 6, June 2016. Staring researches Marietta Pierce Johnson's biography,the development of her progressive educational philosophy and the degree to which it was known prior to about 1913. Included are references with excerpts of articles dated during this period describing Mrs. Johnson's...

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  12. 6.16.1-145 - Correspondence

    Correspondence (C) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1960.

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  13. 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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    FMH-A0004b
  14. FMH-A0007a - Audio, Digital

    Interview (audio) Part 1 dated April 28, 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. Others interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007b. In this interview, three of W. A. Dealy's comic poems are read by the interviewer and Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant details about early Fairhope. The first poem ...

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    FMH-A0007a
  15. FSTC-0600 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph c.1920s of G. W. Herring in Fairhope standing by a bird house. Herring was the father of Mrs. Alice H. Christopher, who, with her husband Joseph Christopher, were summer residents starting about 1912. Upon Mr. Christopher's death in 1929, Mrs. Christopher continued to summer in Fairhope where she was involved in civic affairs, including starting a Girl Scout troop in town. Her father, Mr. Herring, visited her here many times. ...

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    FSTC-0600
  16. PMG-4464-4512 - Correspondence

    Correspondence of Frank L. Brown between 1931-1932. Includes letters, clippings and an editorial during his last tenure as president of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Correspondents include: H. W. Noren C. J. Ewing Henry Ford F. C. Immler Hugo L. Black, Senator from Alabama Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior W. P. Hobart Rev. R. M Hunter D. S. Gage Rev. W. E. Locker Burns Parker A. R. Forbush Lyman Ward Also includ...

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  17. vii.5.14 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/12/1909 to E. B. Gaston from Daniel Kiefer saying that he has written to Carter. He would like to see a copy of Albright's January issue. He asks about the latter part of Mrs. Miller's stay in Fairhope. He had a letter from R. F. Powell. He talks about letterhead of the Joseph Fels Fund. He asks if Alice Herring is back in Fairhope.

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    vii.5.14
  18. vii.5.2-3 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/14/1909 to E. B Gaston from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiefer is responding to a confidential letter from Gaston, likely about the financial status of the Fairhope Improvement Company,and more specifically, the Steamer Fairhope. In addition Kiefer discusses a charge against him from Alice Herring, says Mr. Bigelow might send his wife and family to spend some time in Fairhope, talks about M. V. Watros (who is in charge of t...

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    vii.5.2-3
  19. vii.5.4-5 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/19/1909 to E .B .Gaston from Daniel Kiefer in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kiefer writes on a number of issues: the Steamer Fairhope, personalities in the Colony, the need for a linotype machine (possibly a used one), the excellent onions grown in Fairhope, and other matters. Kiefer says Joseph Fels and Bolton Hall want him to raise the $25,000 for the Joseph Fels Fund for America (Fels has donated to the fund already), and he says "I...

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    vii.5.4-5

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