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30.34.1-32 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1929 and December 1929. Much of the correspondence in this folder relates to a fire at the pierhead of the Fairhope Wharf which occured on October 15, 1929 and issues relating to filing for insurance on the losses. The following businesses and individuals had claims (totalling $661.87) due to items destroyed when the warehouse burned: Fairhope Ice and Creamery Company, Gree...
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31_1915_1-19 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated Spetember 1915 through December 1915. The Colony Council met twice per month. Most meetings included approval of the previous meeting's minutes, Treasurer's reports (bills to be paid, rent information, cash on hand), lease transfers and Wharfinger's report. In addition, highlights of meetings are as follows: September 6, 1915: Problem of water from the Berglin ice plant and from the ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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40_5_162 - Photograph, Digital
Advertisement and cropped photograph from the 1953 Fairhope High School yearbook (annual), the Bay Breeze, of Berglin's Fairhope Ice and Creamery Company, with the Town of Fairhope's water tank visible. The business was located on the northwest corner of Fairhope Avenue and Bancroft Street in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. Berglin's Ice and Creamery Company was one of the oldest in Fairhope, started in 1908, with the original location at bayfront p...
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40_58_015_c - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of the Fairhope Ice & Creamery Company in 1933 (taken for the 26th anniversary of the business).. A. O. Berglin owned the company which was located at the northwest corner of Fairhope Avenue and Bancroft Street in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. The business was founded in 1908, and from 1909-1926, was located at the bayfront. This picture is clipped from an article on the Berglin family published in the December 29, 1993 issue of the ...
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6.7.1-169 - Correspondence
Correspondence (Be-Bl) of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1935-1954.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH_0043 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of A. O. Berglin and Eva Bebolt Berglin soon after their wedding in December 1900. Eva Bebolt Berglin lived in the Euclid Community (also called the Ohio Settlement) In Section 28 (near where the Fairhope High School is located) with her parents Peter Bebolt and Matilda Thomas Bebolt (Larson), and brother Forbes Bebolt. She married A. O. Berglin who had moved to Fairhope. The Berglins opened a butcher shop and meat market at the s...
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FMH_0899 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph, c.1910 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of A. O. Berglin's Fairhope Ice and Creamery Company plant in Fairhope, Alabama. The plant was located at the bayfront just to the north of Wharf Hill and the Fairhope Wharf. Mrs. Eva Mary Bebolt Berglin sits in the carriage with children Lavigne A. Berglin, Myrtle Berglin (Slye) and Marvin O. Berglin. Mr. Berglin stands at the right in the straw hat. See FSTC-0592 for another image, cr...
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FMH-A0005a - Audio, Digital
First part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Approximately 48 minutes. Part 2 is FMH-A0005b. Helene Hunter and Evalyn Porter describe in detail their experiences in early to mid-twentieth century Fairhope. Included are memories of playing in the g...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0005b - Audio, Digital
Second part of an interview (audio) dated 1998. Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead interviews life-long friends Helene Beiser Hunter and Evalyn Berglin Porter for background research for her books "Meet Me at the Butterfly Tree" and "Fair Hope of Heaven." Kenneth C. Cain joins the conversation for a few minutes around the midway point. Approximately 48 minutes. Part 1 is FMH-A0005a. Topics include homes, hotels and businesses, social and atheletic acti...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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...
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FSTC-0792 - Photograph, Digital
Photographs by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "Wharf Hill, Fairhope, Ala" of the busy bay front in Fairhope, Alabama. Mr. A. O. Berglin's Fairhope Ice and Creamery Company is shown on the left. The building on the right still stands and is today Fireman's Hall; in 1906 the water works pumping station was located in the building. In 1915-1916, the Fairhope Electric plant was installed. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archiv...
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FSTC-V0009 - Video, Digital
The video decribes the close knit, family-oriented African -American community in Fairhope, Alabama. Interviews with many descendants of original families, some dating to the early 1800's, include information about the life of early settlers, family and community life,discrimination of the time, education, job opportunities and businesses in Fairhope. The video was made available by the Fairhope Museum of History. Executive Producer: Donnie...
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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...
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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...
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PMG-1431 - Photograph, Digital
Post card photograph by Frank Stewart The Picture Man of "Wharf Hill" in Fairhope, Alabama. Berglin's Fairhope Ice and Creamery Company is on the left. The building on the right was the pumping plant for the water works (1906), and became the Fairhope Electric plant in 1915. The Pepper Nelson Volunteer Fireman's Hall is now at this location. This is the same image as FSTC-0792 except this picture is sepia-toned and much more clear. From ...
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PMG-2010 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c 1915 by Mr. Robac of the Fairhope Ice and Creamery located at the bayfront in Fairhope, Alabama. The Creamery, owned by A. O. Berglin, soon moved to downtown Fairhope at the northwest corner of Fairhope Avenue and Bancroft Street. This picture is part of a collage in a promotional booklet titled "Fairhope On Mobile Bay." The booklet is available at PMG-4057-4092 in these Archives. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope...
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