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  1. 29.21.1-31 - Correspondence

    General Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, the Fairhope Courier, and E. B. Gaston dated May 1935. Of note is an letter by W. C. Leedy of Birmingham about the Scottsboro Boys trial, and an article titled "Let's End That Ancient Atrocity" by Alva W. Taylor of Vanderbilt University about Child Labor issues. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  2. 34_23_001_024 - Article

    Article written in 1900 and published in 1904 by Thomas McAdory Owen (1866-1920), the founder and first director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The subject, Dr. Basil Manly (1798-1868), was the founder of the Alabama Historical Society, and it was on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Society that Owen wrote this biography. Manly held leadership positions in the Southern Baptist Convention (preacher and offic...

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  3. 34_87_001_010 - Newspaper Article

    Assorted articles about the history of Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  4. 36_9_001_005 - Article

    Article about the Fairhope Colony. Printed in "The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform" by Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1908. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  5. 39_12_001-003 - Article

    Article titled "The Sage of Tolstoi Park" published in "New England Essays, The Challenge of An Individualist" by Edward H. Packard. The essay is about Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart), known as the Hermit of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver and a Modern Thoreau. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of the Mount Union University Archives.

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  6. 39_13_001_005 - Article

    Article from the Mount Union University Archives titled "Alumni - Henry James Stuart" by N. Yost Osborne of Alliance, Ohio. (with no date). Stuart attended Mount Union College in the 1879-1880 academic year. In 1923, he moved from Nampa, Idaho to Montrose, Alabama where he built a "Round House" and lived the "simple life" for twenty-one years. Stuart was know as the Hermit of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver and a Modern Thoreau, and named his prope...

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  7. 39_16_001 - Article

    Article titled "Memories of the Round House" by Jerry B. Goss dated June 25, 2025. Goss is the grandson of William J. Herring and Sadie Ray Harris Herring. Between 1953-1955, the Herrings owned six acres in Montrose, Alabama. Their land had been called Tolstoy Park by an earlier owner, Henry James Stuart, who built a concrete and brick domed house there. In his article, Mr. Goss writes of his memories of the Round House where his grandpa...

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  8. 39_4_001_002 - Article

    Article about Henry Stuart, The Hermit of Montrose, dated 1929 from the American Riviera Review titled "Fairhope, Alabama The Fountain of Youth" by Grace Harrell Flagg. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of the Mount Union University Archives. .

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  9. 39_9_01 - Article

    Articles titled "Reflections on Ararchy" by G. R. S. T. Henry Stuart, The Hermit of Montrose, distributed copies of this paper on anarchy. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, courtesy of the Mount Union University Archives.

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  10. 40_02_001-008 - Article

    Article titled "Sexual Purity and the Double Standard" by James Bellangee published in the February 1895 edition of The Arena magazine. Bellangee was a founder of the single tax colony of Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  11. 40_53_001-069 - Magazine

    Eastern Shore Quarterly Magazine, Volume One, Number One, dated Autumn 1987. This is the first of four magazines published in 1987-1988 by editor and publisher Sonny Brewer in Fairhope, Alabama. It includes feature articles on various topics and individuals, profiles, interviews, poetry, calendar of events, flora and fauna and advertisements. Articles are by Karen Bedsole, Peets Buffett, Ronald E. Capps, B. Wayne Dean, George Fuller, Natali...

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  12. 40_54_001-068 - Magazine

    Eastern Shore Quarterly Magazine, Volume One, Number Two, dated Winter 1987. This is the second of four magazines published in 1987-1988 by editor and publisher Sonny Brewer in Fairhope, Alabama. It includes feature articles on various topics and individuals, profiles, interviews, poetry, calendar of events, flora and fauna and advertisements. Articles are by: Sonny Brewer, Ronald E. Capps, Natalie Green, Bill Hill, Tony Lowery, Michael Po...

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  13. 40_55_001-068 - Magazine

    Eastern Shore Quarterly Magazine, Volume One, Number Three, dated Spring 1988. This is the third of four magazines published in 1987-1988 by editor and publisher Sonny Brewer in Fairhope, Alabama. It includes feature articles on various topics and individuals, profiles, interviews, poetry, calendar of events, flora and fauna and advertisements. Writers include Sonny Brewer, Ronald Capps, Suzanne Hudson, Monroe Thompson, Tom Kelly, Natalie G...

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  14. 40_56_001-060 - Magazine

    Eastern Shore Quarterly Magazine, Volume One, Number Four, dated Summer 1988. This is the fourth of four magazines published in 1987-1988 by editor and publisher Sonny Brewer in Fairhope, Alabama. It includes feature articles on various topics, individuals, profiles, interviews, poetry, calendar of events, flora and fauna and advertisements. Writers include Terry Brown, Wayne Dean, Suzanne Hudson, Beauregard Bob Lee, Glenda Murphy, Stig Mar...

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  15. 40_57_081-083 - Article

    Article dated 1996 by Sonny Brewer titled "Coming Full Circle" which appeared in the Red Bluff Review. Brewer introduces the reader to Henry Stuart, the "Hermit" of Montrose, a weaver who left Idaho in 1923 and moved to the land he named Tolstoy Park in Montrose. Nine years later, in 2005, Brewer's novel about Henry James Stuart titled "The Poet of Tolstoy Park" was published. The book heightened interest in Stuart, so much so that, through...

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  16. PMG_14063 - Article

    Fairhope Courier Centennial Edition article dated March 7, 1983 about Gretchen Riggs, who lived in Fairhope from 1938 until her death in 1991. Mrs. Riggs was a poet, actor, radio actor, puppeteer, director, writer and involved in the theater community in Fairhope, including Theater 98. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  17. PMG_14064 - Article

    Fairhope Courier Centennial Edition article dated October 19, 1994 titled "Fairhope's first families Dyson legacylives on in Fairope buildings." Includes photographs and information about Marmaduke Dyson, a builder and businessman in Fairhope, Alabama and his sons, Sam Dyson, Raymond Dyson and George Dyson. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  18. PMG_14092-14097 - Article

    Copy of an article from the June 1922 New Haven Teachers' Journal found in the research papers of Dr. Paul Gaston. The article was written by Mrs. Anna B. Nolan, a teacher from New Haven, Connecticut, who attended the Teachers Training Class for the Winter Course 1922 at the School of Organic Education (Organic School) in Fairhope, Alabama. The article is very descriptive about Fairhope and the Organic School. Mrs. Nolan writes of her o...

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  19. PMG_14185-14186 - Documents

    Extracts from an article written by Henry George and published in his newspaper The Standard, dated September 9, 1887 titled "Not a tax on Land or Labor or Capital but a tax on the privilege of using valuable land." Published by the Henry George Tract Society in Endwell, New York. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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  20. PMG-4123-4130 - Article

    Article dated February 1894 titled "The Relation of the Land Question to Other Reforms" by Professor James Bellangee. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives

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