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1. 33_2_023 - Cemetery Record Book

   Fairhope Colony Cemetery Record Book Lot 79. Lot 79: Grave 1: Worcester, Warren W., died 1925 Grave 2: Matilda E. Worcester, died 1912 Grave 3: Joseph A. Wrigley, died 1918. Note says he lived in The Kanuck Hotel and had no relatives Grave 4: C. F. Perry (Columbus Franklin Perry), died 1911 Grave 5: A. J. Melville, died 1935 Grave 6: Louise Melville, died 1915 Grave 7: Albrecht Jung (aka Albert Jung), died 1927, a resident of North Riv...

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2. 34_72_098-099 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 400 Fairhope Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. This building, sometimes referred to as the McKean Building back in the day, was built in 1938 (Fairhope Courier 9/15/1938) - not the 1931-1933 date given in other documents. The McKean Building sits on the central downtown corner of Fairhope. The original building (on what was known in early days as the Brown Block) was built by C. K....

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3. 34_72_149-150 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 32 South Section Street (32 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." This two-story building was constructed in 1949 by Mrs. Bessie Klumpp Allegri and husband Mr. V. J. Allegri, Jr., and was referred to as the...

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4. 34_72_151 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 40 South Section Street (40 Section Street South) in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope Historic District." The building is sometimes referred to as The Crain House; please see information below for explanation. The house was built in 1908 as the ...

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5. 5.10.1-234 - Letter

   Correspondence of secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston), dated 1934-1952, (letter W). Includes general business correspondence of the FSTC: letters of inquiry about the Colony, letters of inquiry about leasing lands, records, rents and other day-to-day business correspondence. In addition, there is correspondence between C. A. Gaston and Fiske Warren (and other Warren family members) about pro...

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6. 6.4.1-143 - Letter

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1933-1947 pertaining to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, a New Deal program. Includes correspondence with Lister Hill and Hugo Black in a successful attempt to add amendments to the legislation which created the HOLC so that lessees of the FSTC would be eligible for the program. Other correspondence pertains to individual petitions for the program.

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7. FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital

   Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...

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8. FSTC-V0030 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated March 8, 1995 with Dorothy Beiser Cain. Mrs. Cain is also know as Dot Cain and Mama Dot Cain. Interviewers are Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Dot Cain came to Fairhope in the late 19teens with her parents Felix Beiser and Rosamond Beiser, from Loxley, Alabama where her father owned a general store. Dot was the third of six children. Her parents had heard a lecture given by Marietta Johnson and decided to ...

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