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1. 1.6.67-74 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated 12/16/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. The matter of hiring a wharfinger was discussed, and the detailed job description was presented. The job includes everything from keeping reports, handling freight, keeping logs floating in the Bay away from the wharf, maintaining the road to the wharf, meeting boats, and many other duties. The secretary was isntructed to post the bids for the...

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2. 1.6.75-83 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting MInutes dated 12/23/1895 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Industrial Association. The matter of acquiring an adjacent 320 acres for the FIA by Mr. Bostedo and Nusbaum was discussed. They are willing to purchase the land and hold it untile the FIA is able to pay them for it. In this business, Bostedo writes that he wants to review the 'papers' before sending bank drafts for the payment. He is using Mr. George Hoyle as his agen...

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3. 1.6.91-97 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes dated 1/13/1896 of the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Association. Reports submitted to the Trustees for audit were found to be correct. Wharfinger Report for the week submitted - $9.79. The road to the Wharf has been improved considerably, The purchase of land adjacent to Colony lands by Mr. Bostedo and Mr. Nusbaum has been completed. They will hold the land for the FIA until such time as it can be purc...

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4. 1895_Courier_Page_15 - Newspaper Article

   Newspaper article titled "More Land Secured" from the February 15, 1895 Fairhope Courier. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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5. 1896_Courier_Page_47 - Newspaper Article

   Article in the November 1, 1896 edition of the Fairhope Courier titled "More Land Secured." George Bancroft gave 320 acres to the Colony in exchange for Fairhope Industrial Association stock and with that purchase the total lands owned by the FIA was 670 acres. Two Chicago single-taxers and businessmen, Louis Bostedo and A. E. Nusbaum bought 320 acres for the Colony with an option for the Colony to purchase within a year at 6% interest. (T...

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6. 1898_Courier_Page_007 - Newspaper Article

   Newspaper article from the January 1, 1898 edition of the Fairhope Courier reporting that Mr. C. K. Brown purchased 320 acres from Louis G. Bostedo and A. G. Nusbaum of Chicago, with an option for the Colony to purchase the land by January of 1899. Bostedo and Nusbaum had bought the land in 1895, holding it with an option for the Colony to purchase at 6% interest. They sold it to Brown. Brown's son Frank L. Brown and the latter's brother-in-law...

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7. 1900_Courier - Newspaper

   Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1900. The paper was published twice monthly and all 24 editions are 8 pages. The masthead changed several times in September -October. Two pages in the February 1, 1900 edition are missing. These historic papers are scanned using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in pdf format and are keyword serachable using the "find" or "search" function in your browser. Some topics of the year: The Fairhope Pub...

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8. 35_14_001_005 - Documents

   Letter and Abstract dated April 15, 1899 and written to E. B. Gaston from George H. Hoyle about lands in Section 17. Hoyle is the abstractor for Baldwin County, Alabama, and is writing about questions Gaston posed. The cost was $20 and was paid to Hoyle in Wharf Certificates ($25). Hoyle finds information about Section 17 land owners back to 1836 and detailed information about each transfer of property over the years. From the Fairhope...

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9. 9.28.1-33 - Correspondence

   Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1986-1996 (S-Z). Includes various drafts of an article about the FSTC 0written by the Wisconsin Property Owners League. 9.28.17-19 is a chronological list of the FSTC's land acquisiton, starting with Sarah Tatum.

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10. FMH_0015-0016 - Photograph, Digital

    Photographs (not dated) of Jerome B. Stapleton and wife Lucy Stapleton (Lucy Marion Brown Stapleton 1838-1925). Jerome Stapleton and his brothers Edgar Stapleton and Edwin Stapleton raised cattle on the land which the Fairhope Industrial Association purchased from Mrs. Sarah Tatum in January 1895 (the initial purchase of property for the new Fairhope Colony). This property, sometimes referred to as "Stapleton's Pasture" was the subject of a la...

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11. ii.10.99-100 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on 3/20/1894 from Calvin B. Power, Dunbar, Pa. He thinks Gaston's letters in Liberty Bell are good. They must have sufficient money to buy 50,000 to 200,000 acres of land for Colony. They must get enough land to be a force in State Legislation. He is not getting his loan as easily as expected. Has worked hard at propaganda work but has not earned a dime in 5 months. He thinks letters in Liberty Bell seem to fav...

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12. ii.12.3-5 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on October 17, 1894 from Sarah P. Tatum of Montrose, Alabama saying that Mr. Norton has informed her that the Fairhope Industrial Association is not ready to purchase land. She describes the land she is willing to sell at a price of $6.00 per acre. She will not raise the price before December 1, 1894. She has made a low offer for cash and must have at least $500.00 cash or more in order to sell her land. She has oth...

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13. PMG_13649-13694 - Student Paper

    Paper dated December 1988 by student Phil Townsend written to fulfill requirements for a Fairhope Seminar course taught by University of Virginia Professor Paul. M. Gaston. The title is "Land Acquisition and the Fairhope Single Tax Colony" and discusses how, when and by whom land was acquired for the Fairhope Colony from 1894-1906. A Chronology of Land Acquisitions by the Fairhope Industrial Association, and several maps are included. F...

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14. vii.4.18-19 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/31/1910 to J. S. Arthur in University City, Mississippi from E. B. Gaston. Gaston is giving information about the title to the original land purchased by the Fairhope Industrial Association (now the Fairhope Single Tax Association) from Sarah Tatum. The Tatum track was challenged by the Stapleton suit, but chancery court in Mobile ruled in Mrs. Tatum's favor. Portions of this letter are torn and not legible.

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