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1.10.81-82 - Letter
Letter dated 11/12/1907 to Louis Post in Chicago, Illinois from James Bellangee in Fairhope, Alabama. Bellangee is writing about the upcoming Single Tax Conference and the likelihood that two parties from Fairhope will attend the conference. Bellangee is concerned about airing Fairhope's problems in this forum, and feels neither party represents "the common people of Fairhope." Bellangee describes the men who plan to attend the conference by...
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1.12.24 - Letter
Undated letter likely 1921 to the Execultive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from members of the Fairhope community. The letter is written on Town of Fairhope letterhead and requests the FSTC to make the People's Railroad Company safe and to restart deliveries. From the correspondence of Anne B. Call.
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1.14.72-73 - Letter
Letter dated 8/11/1930 to A. E. Shalkenbach from Anne B. Call. Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and Call is writing Shalkenbach about FSTC business because he is away from Fairhope tending his sick mother. The issue has to do with "Mr. Gaston's latest idea" to "deed the parks to the town and get rid of that much property to pay taxes on." Call wants Shalkenbach's opinion on whether he thinks a constitutional amendmen...
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1.14.74 - Letter
Letter dated 8/15/1930 to Anne Bellangee Call from A. E. Shalkenbach in Chicago, Illinois (where he living temporarily caring for his sick mother). Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and are continuing their discussion about whether the FSTC should giving Corporation owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope. Shalkenbach's opinion is that no transfer should take place for two reasons. First, he thinks the Town of Fairhope...
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3.30.14-15 - Letter
Letter dated 2/13/1931 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding the "offensive and unsanitary discharge" coming from residents living on the bluff at the foot of Fels Avenue overlooking the ballpark. The FSTC requests the Town of Fairhope to assert their power to stop the discharge.
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3.30.16-18 - Letter
Letter dated 410/1931 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation requesting permission to move the Rathe house to another location. A newspaper clipping of the Town Council's action approving this is included.
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3.30.19 - Letter
Letter dated 11/27/1931 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding an upgrade of sewers on School Street.
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3.30.20 - Letter
Letter dated 2/11/1932 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, officially offering to transfer the wharf from the FSTC to the town. He states this action will be similar to the transfer of the parklands to the Town (9/29/1931).
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3.30.21 - Letter
Letter dated 3/19/1932 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation notifying them that the FSTC will assume the costs of street improvements on parklands previously transferred to the Town.
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3.30.22 - Letter
Letter dated 6/22/1932 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation stating that the FSTC will no longer pay for the electric lights on the wharf.
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3.30.2-3 - Correspondence
This correspondence relates to two letters between January 17th -February 19th to the Mayor andd Town Council of Fairhope from the Single Tax Corporation expressing opposition to the proposed sewer system. Noted that lessees holding lands affected by the proposed system opposed it due to possible reduction in land value due to closeness of the proposed disposal plant.
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3.30.27-32 - Correspondence
Correspondence, announcements and a survey dated fall 1934 authorizing the Town of Fairhope to initiate street improvements, assessing Fairhope Single Tax Corporation lessees with property fronting the streets at $1 per foot. The names of the over one-hundred lessees affected are included. The FSTC has no protest against these improvements to the Town's streets.
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3.30.6-7 - Letter
Letter and bill dated 3/15/1930 from the Gladys Lowell, City Clerk for the Town of Fairhope, issuing a bill for the Town tax for 1929 to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the Peoples Cooperative Store. $129 owed.
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3.30.8 - Letter
Letter dated 4/25/1930 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding sewage disposal issues, and pursuing a joint solution by the two bodies.
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3.30.9 - Letter
Letter dated 7/6/1930 to the mayor and council of the Town of Fairhope from E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation regarding water runoff after rains at the corner of Oak and Bayview streets.
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3.33.1-39 - Letter
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation correspondence dated 1915-1936 centered on issues of rent, how rents are assessed, specific information about rents on streets in Fairhope, condition of streets, Town of Fairhope taxes, and how the FSTC should approach the Fairhope Town council with regard to some issues. Most documents concern 1930-1931, with many reference materials included about the recent years when the rent multiplier was increased. Mo...
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3.34.1-37 - Letter
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1913-1936, mostly E. B. Gaston, secretary of the Corporation responding to letters of inquiry about Fairhope, acquiring leased lands, requesting subscriptions to the Fairhope Courier newspaper, the School of Organic Education (Organic School), and other similar matters. Most documents are in the 1931-1936 time period.
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FMH_0341 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated June, 1958, of Arthur Fairhope Gaston (aka Spider Gaston) and Miss Helen Call leading the Town of Fairhope's 50th Anniversary celebration parade. Although Fairhope was founded in 1894, it was not a municipality in the State of Alabama in 1908 - and it is this Golden Anniversary which is being celebrated. The float is passing The Colony Shop, located on the south side of the street at 332 Fairhope Avenue. (This business wo...
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PMG-5925-5953 - Student Paper
Student paper dated 1984 by John McCoy Berkley, Jr. written to fulfill requirements for a history course on Fairhope, Alabama taught at the Univeristy of Virginia by Corcoran Professor of History Dr. Paul M. Gaston. Paper is titled "Fairhope: Towards Municipal Incorporation" and discusses the events leading to the incorporation of the Town of Fairhope as a municipality in the State of Alabama in 1908. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fa...
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PMG-6518-6545 - Student Paper
Student paper dated 1988 by Laurence McDuff submitted for a history class taught at the University of Virginia by Dr. Paul M. Gaston The paper is titled "From Colony to Corporation: The Fairhope Single Tax Colony's Transfer of Public Facilities." The beginnings of the Fairhope Industrial Association, the Fairhope Colony, the establishment of the Town of Fairhope as a municipality in 1908, an the subsequent transfer of public assests from the...
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