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1. 31_1926_1-11_Page_09 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 18, 1926 in which the Colony Council, anticipating the opening of the Cochrane Bridge across Mobile Bay (aka the causeway), passed a resolution favoring the building of a road from the bridgehead of the Cochrane Bridge south along the eastern shore. This road would be named Eastern Shore Boulevard (now Scenic Highway 98). Note: the Cochrane Bridge opened June 15, 1927. ...

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2. FMH_0833-0834 - Photograph, Digital

   Two photographs taken in 1927 during the construction of the causeway (Cochrane Bridge) which connected Baldwin and Mobile counties. The Cochrane Bridge officially opened on June 15, 1927. Picture 1 shows the completed bridge over the Spanish River, taken looking west. In Picture 2, tugboats position the draw span portion of the bridge in place on March 4, 1927. . Called the "Cochrane Bridge," this major engineering project resulted in ...

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3. FSTC-V0021 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated February 2, 1995 with H. Reed Myers and Pierce E. "Bud" Frederick (1923-2000); interviewed by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Pierce "Bud" Frederick appears on the right in the interview. He speaks first. Dr. Frederick was born in Fairhope in 1923. His parents were Paul A. Frederick (1894-1972) and Esther Pierce Frederick (1897-1997). His mother was the niece of Marietta Johnson; Pierce and his brother Pa...

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4. 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...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
5. FSTC-V0038 - Video, Digital

   Video interview of Winifred Foster Dougherty (1899-1999) dated July 21, 1994 when she was 94 years old. She came to the Fairhope area in 1918. Her mother was Maude Thompson Foster and they lived near Fish River at River Park. She remembers swimming in Fish River and the bay, taking the bay boats to Mobile, riding the People's RR, attending parties and dances at the Casino and Comings Hall. She married Crail Jackson Dougherty in 1927 in Fairho...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
6. FSTC-V0040 - Video, Digital

   Video interview dated September 2, 1994 of Ouida Swanson Berglin who came to Fairhope in 1926 from Monroeville, Alabama. She married Lavigne Berglin, Sr. on June 15, 1927, the same day the Cochrane Bridge (Causeway) opened. Known as "Honey" to her family, she was a school teacher, artist, writer and poet. She worked at the family-owned Fairhope Ice and Creamery (started by her father-in-law A.O. Berglin) and was the activities director at Rosem...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
7. PUB_0051 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph c. 1932 of a section of the Cochrane Bridge (aka The Causeway) which connected Mobile County and Baldwin County. It opening in 1927. This picture appears in a promotional booklet published in 1931-1932 by the Fairhope Chamber of Commerce. The complete booklet (titled "Fairhope on Mobile Bay, Facts of Interest) is availabe at PUB_0050_0058 in these FSTC Online Archives. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

   Record Type: Photo