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1. FMH-A0003 - Audio, Digital

   Audio narration of "Diary of the Storm of September 26-27, 1906" by Maude M. Midgette (Maude M. Midgette Helton). Narrated by Norma Brandenburg Haas. Maude M. Midgette (1886-1930) was a twenty-year old young woman, who with her family, survived the hurricane of September 1906 at Pilot Town. The community, located at Navy Cove on the Fort Morgan peninsula in Baldwin County, Alabama, was destroyed in the storm. Miss Midgette wrote her account o...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
2. FMH-V1010 - Video, Digital

   Oral history, Part 1, by William Frank "Frank" Larway (1933-2019). The video continues in FMH-V1011. Run time is approximately 50 minutes. Laraway discusses his family, early life in Fairhope, Alabama, education at the Marietta Johnson of Organic School, and later career and travels. He describes his parents' move from the Northeast, their poultry and dairy farm operations in Fairhope, and childhood chores such as milking cows, raising chic...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
3. FMH-V1011 - Video, Digital

   Oral history video, Part 2, by William Frank "Frank" Laraway (1933-2019). Part 1 is available at FMH-V1010. Laraway's story starts with his marriage in 1963, return to Fairhope from Michigan in 1965, and the establishment of his career as an architect.. For the rest of this detailed interview, Laraway talks about his early life in Fairhope in the 1940s and 1950s: farming and raising chickens (commercially), Organic School, friends, outi...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
4. FSTC-0156 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, dated approximately 1925 of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company established in 1922 in Fairhope, Alabama. The building was located at the northwest corner of Bancroft Street and Fairhope Avenue. The Farmers Cooperative Creamery went into default in 1926. A.O. Berglin bought the building in 1926 for his Fairhope Ice and Creamery Company. (Berglin's company was formed in 1908 and was located at...

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. FSTC-1545-1546 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, the Picture Man, titled "Cross & Co Dairy, Fairhope, Alabama. " There is a handwritten message on the reverse side postmarked on December 6, 1910 from the post office in Summerdale, Alabama. Husband and wife Capt. J. R. Cross (Capt. Jack Cross) and Eloise Gardner Cross moved to Fairhope in 1908 to establish Cross & Co Dairy Farm as a model of modern dairy farming. The concrete silo seen in the picture w...

   Record Type: Photo