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1. 1.11.5-6 - Meeting Minutes

   Newspaper clipping of an excerpt of Fairhope Singe Tax Meeting Minutes dated 11/22/1911 concerning a committee report about transfering the water plant from the FSTC to the Town of Fairhope. Committee members H. C. Oswalt, W. E. Sweet and James Bellangee recommended the transfer and proposed a plan for those individuals who paid a fee to established the water works to be given a credit for that investment. In addition, the committee recommended ...

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2. 33_2_015 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book of graves in Lot 62 as shown on page 62 of the book. Lot 62 Grave 1: Conflicting information for this grave. A "Mrs. Flagg" is noted in the plat diagram, but there is a detailed note that Ensign George William Oberg used this grave space, died 1917 from drowning in an accident while serving in the Naval Reserve in New York. Other Cemetery sources clear up the matter: Sarah Grace Flagg, died 1939, is bu...

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3. PMG-1660 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated 1908 of the first mayor and town council in Fairhope, Alabama: First Row L-R: James Bellangee, Mayor Harris S. Greeno, P. Y. Albright Second Row L-R: J. M. Pilcher, W, E. Sweet, C. L. Coleman, Capt. C. E. Nichols, Nathaniel Mershon. Photograph courtsey of the family of Michael A. Ford. Mr. Ford was a longtime City of Fairhope Council member, a local businessperson, and involved in Fairhope history and the establishme...

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4. PMG-1662 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated 1908 of the first town council and mayor in Fairhope, Alabama. L-R: J. M. Pilcher, James Bellangee, W. E. Sweet, C. L. Coleman, Capt. C. E. Nichols, P. Y. Albright, Nathaniel Mershon. Mayor Dr. Harris S. Greeno is seated. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

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5. vi.5.2-3 - Letter

   Letter dated 1/6/1906 to E. B. Gaston from S. H. Read in Fruitdale, Alabama. Read asks Gaston to return an item belonging to Read as soon as possible. (Cataloger cannot determine what the item is.) Read says James Bellangee has arranged an appointment with someone in Fairhope. Read does not know the man's name, only that he is the son-in-law of Mr. Sweet. Read tells Gaston that "we had a new years present of a wide awake boy" that his ...

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6. viii.7.1-84 - Letter

   Fairhope Colony Archives Correspondence 1917-1922, box viii, folder 7, pages 1-84. This folder includes correspondence to and from E. B. Gaston, about parcels of land for lease, names of those selling and desiring to obtain, descriptions of such as well as prices for houses, outbuildings and other improvements on Colony lands and requests for rentals. (Correspondence with people with last names R-S)

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