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1. 1.2.120-122 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association dated June 24, 1894. Executive Coucil Members Present: Vice President Lamon, C. L Coleman, Geoge Pollay, Jennie Pollay, E. B. Gaston, J. P. Hunnel. Moved and carried that Mrs. Lamon be accorded 5 acres. James P. Hunnel made application for 10 acres. George Pollay gave a report comparing locations for the wharf. C. L. Coleman reported on the well. E. B. Gaston reported that Mrs....

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2. 1.2.126-128 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated July 8, 1895 of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Present: C. L. Coleman, George Pollay, Jennie Pollay, E. B. Gaston, J. W. Ettel, Marie Ettel, Clara M. Gaston, J. L. Kearns, William Stimpson, H. C. C. Schakel. C. L. Coleman reported on the well. E. B. Gaston reported on wharf pilings and the propositon of Mr. Stapleton to furnish the stumps. E. B. Gaston was instructed to offer Mrs. Tatum $250 in cash and $50 i...

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3. 1.2.35 - Meeting Minutes

   (this was written on same page as earlier minutes) Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Industrial Association Executive Council dated Dec. 15, 1894 in Battles, Ala. August Dellgren, Chairman pro-tem presiding. Moved and carried unanimously that the south portion of the track just purchased of Mrs.Tatum be the first plotted and settled upon. Plans for laying off this land were submitted by Brothers Pollay and Tuveson but laid over to next m...

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4. 1.2.36-38 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Executive Council of Fairhope Industrial Association dated December 17, 1894 in Battles, Alabama. E.B. Gaston appointed a committee to purchase Bowen lands. He reported he had secured a price of $1.25 per acre on the single 1/4 section lying immediately next to Miss Tatum. Mr. Bromberg, attorney, was asked if he would not in consideration of our buying and paying cash for the first 160 acres and proposing to buy with...

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5. 1.2.44-46 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated 12/31/1894 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association in Battles, Alabama, Mr. Cherry's lighter has been secured for 4 days rent at $1.50 per day. The Council approved a general meeting every Saturday for all FIA members. There was discussion of the Colony water suppy and the need for a pump. The secretary was instructed to meet with Mrs. Tatum to discuss property lines. A committee was establishe...

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6. 1.2.46-48 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated 1/2/1895 of the Fairhope Industrial Association in Battles, Alabama. Topics included approving purchase of an additional 3 acres from Mrs. Tatum, identification of timbers along the shoreline for use as pilings for the wharf, laying out streets, one 66 feet wide and the other 80 feet wide, and approval of building the store, with Brother Dellgren supervising and Brother Michaels hired to build it.

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7. 1.2.49 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes dated 1/3/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association meeting in Battles, Alabama. The Council accepted Mrs. Tatum's proposition to swap some land with the Association, and voted to make all lots a uniform depth.

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8. 1.2.94-99 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated 4/29/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. Topics: Work on the well is progressing, having reached a depth of 40 feet to date. Secretary Gaston reported on his trip to Daphne to secure more land, requested a bid on setting type for the Courier, and testified in the case of J. B. Stapleton vs Mrs. Tatum. C. L. Coleman reported on the Colony store, and was granted approval to buy sto...

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9. 29.13.1-12 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1934 comprised of letters and one telegram concerning the decision by the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to not allow participation by FSTC lessees in the program. The decision was a great disadvantage to the lessees personally, and a blow to the FSTC which fought the decision with the end result being an amendment to the HOLC act allowing Fairhope's participation. There are in...

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10. 29.13.2-5 - Correspondence

    Letter dated July 5, 1934 from J. H. Webb, Mobile District Counsel for the Home Owner's Loan Association to J. Chandler Burton, Alabama State Counsel for HOLA. This letter is in a folder (29.13.1-12) pertaining to the HOLA and the problems the FSTC had with lessees of Colony land not being eligible for HOLA loans. This letter is interesting because Webb served as attorney for the Fairhope Colony for many years and has background and history t...

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11. 36_7_001_006 - Documents

    Partial Abstract of Title to land in Fairhope, Alabama. The land is sometimes referred to as the Schalkenback Tract. This land's ownership was in dispute between Sarah Tatum and Jerome Stapleton. Chancery Court in Mobile settled the dispute in favor of Mrs. Tatum in 1896. (See BSS.906 in these online Archives for the resolution of that dispute.) Mrs. Tatum sold the property to Charles Schalkenback on February 26, 1894. (She would se...

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12. 3.9.56 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/5/1930 to E. G. Rickarby, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding lease of the land by the Peoples Cooperative Store.

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13. 4.5.1-201 - Correspondence

    Correspondence (Ba-Bi) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1934-1955. 4.5.48-83 contains correspondence between C. A. Gaston, secretary of the FSTC and John H. Bankhead, Senator of Alabama, regarding a bill he introduced before the Senate on 2/7/1935 to create the Farm Tenant Homes Corporation, to promote more secure occupancy of farms and farm homes, to correct the economic instability resulting from some present forms of farm tena...

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14. BSS.905 - Legal Documents

    Partial Abstract of Title showing the sale of 14 3/4 acres by Sarah I. Tatum to Charles E. Schalkenbach on February 26, 1894. Known as the Schalkenbach Tract, this property (or portions of) would be sold several times between 1894 and 1926 as documented in BSS.901 through BSS.914. The property bordered the north side of the 132 acres the Fairhope Industrial Association would purchase in January 1895 to start the model community of Fairhope. ...

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15. BSS.906 - Legal Documents

    Resolution of what seems to be an appeal to an original law suit of Jerome B. Stapleton vs Sarah I. Tatum in Chancery Court, Mobile, Alabama. Stapleton had sued Tatum for title to certain lands, and the court found in favor of Mrs. Tatum. Stapleton and his brothers Edgar Stapleton and Edwin Stapleton were ordered to pay court costs and were enjoined from further attempts of claim on the land. Note: part of the land in question was the 132...

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16. FMH_0015-0016 - Photograph, Digital

    Photographs (not dated) of Jerome B. Stapleton and wife Lucy Stapleton (Lucy Marion Brown Stapleton 1838-1925). Jerome Stapleton and his brothers Edgar Stapleton and Edwin Stapleton raised cattle on the land which the Fairhope Industrial Association purchased from Mrs. Sarah Tatum in January 1895 (the initial purchase of property for the new Fairhope Colony). This property, sometimes referred to as "Stapleton's Pasture" was the subject of a la...

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17. ii.10.43 - Letter

    Letter dated 08/20/1894 to E. B. Gaston from E. Q. Norton of Daphne, Alabama. Norton has sent Gaston separately a jar of fig preserves. The figs were grown on Mrs. Sarah Tatum's "place" and were "put up" by her. Norton wants Gaston to give out samples and would like Gaston to send orders for the preserves. Norton gives prices. He says these preserves "go much farther" because one only uses a small amount, they are so sweet.

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18. ii.12.159-162 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 8/25/1894 from G. J. Stemerdink, Muscatine, Iowa. This letter is in regards to selection of the Fairhope location. He has read E. Q. Norton's article in Liberty Bell regarding the advantages of locating in Baldwin County, Alabama, and after reading this article and the Committee's report the he is in favor of location in Baldwin County. He has not received his ballot for voting so will write out on paper. The...

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19. ii.12.3-5 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on October 17, 1894 from Sarah P. Tatum of Montrose, Alabama saying that Mr. Norton has informed her that the Fairhope Industrial Association is not ready to purchase land. She describes the land she is willing to sell at a price of $6.00 per acre. She will not raise the price before December 1, 1894. She has made a low offer for cash and must have at least $500.00 cash or more in order to sell her land. She has oth...

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20. ii.12.65-67 - Letter

    Letter dated 8/251894 to E. B. Gaston from William Schemenour of Waterville, Ohio. He is discussing the Locating Committe report for the site of the Fairhope Colony. He thinks the site on Mrs. Sarah Tatum's land on Mobile Bay would be good, but he also believes the site in Tennessee with its abundant timber should be considered. He encloses his site-selection ballot (not included with the letter).

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