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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 ...
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31_1916_1-42 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Coprporation dated 1916. The Colony Council met aproximately twice per month. Most meetings included approval of the previous meeting's minutes, Treasurer's reports (bills, rent receipts, cash on hand, etc.) lease transfers,Wharfinger's report and general Colony business. Among other issues reported in the 1916 meeting minutes: 1916 Annual Meeting Minutes and financial report, turpentine and stum...
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31_1917_1-10 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1917. These Minutes were published in the Fairhope Courier newspaper and the scans appear as newspaper clippings. The Colony Council met approximately twice per month and included financial reports, lease transfers, and general FSTC business. Annual meeting minutes are included. Among highlights of 1917 are: January 17, 1917. Discussion by FSTC trustees Anne B. Call and A. ...
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31_1918_1-10 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1918. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes general Colony correspondece: financial reports, leases and the Annual Meeting minutes. Among highlights are: January 15, 1918 FSTC addresses how to get money owed the Colony from Marlow Turpentine Company. January 24, 1918: Annual Meeting. Trustees report wharf in bad condition. March 4, 1918: The Town ...
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31_1919_1-10 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1919. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes financial reports, lease information and information about the business of the Corporation. At the Annual Meeting on January 27, 1919, the Colony was reported in good financial shape, the best in many years. The death of one of Fairhope's founders, S. S. Mann was noted. Overall, 1919 was a busy year with the FS...
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31_1920_1-9 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1920. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Includes reports, lease information and information reflective of the business of the Corporation. Among other topics discussed: Colony Telphone System, Fairhope Public LIbrary, street and drainage projects, Tax increases on FSTC lands, rent issues and lessee concerns. Signor Cipriano Montoliu sent his Organic City pla...
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31_1921_1-15 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1921. The Colony Council usually met twice per month. Included is information on the business of the Corporation: lease transfers, Annual Meeting, Treasurer's Reports, annual elections, etc. Highlights of the year are: Mrs. Lydia Jane Newcomb Comings declined to run again for president of the Corporation. A. H. Mershon was voted president, Nelson Rockwell vice-president, G. W. ...
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31_1922_1-12 - Meeting Minutes
Meetings MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1922. The Colony Council met approximately every two weeks. The business of the Corporation included routine lease transfers, rent collections, maintenance of the parks and other Colony-owned properties, projects with the Town of Fairhope, consideration of upgrading the Colony-owned telephone system, the Somers System and other topics. Although all interesting, the Minutes for...
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31_1923_1-14 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1923. (Note pages 13 and 14 contain minutes for the following year, 1924 - the rest of that year can be viewed at 31_1924_1-10.) The 1923 Minutes contain the general business of the Colony; meetings were held twice per month. Some highlights include:objections to enlarging the electric plant because of increased traffic at the bayfront, printing maps of Colony lands,naming of...
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31_1924_1-10 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1924. Includes general correspondence of the Corporation, financial reports, annual meeting mintues, Lessees' meeting minutes of October 17, 1924, and routine business conducted by the Colony Council. The FSTC usually met twice per month. Note: The first page of the 1924 Minutes can be found at 31_1923_1-14. Treasurer G. W. Wood died early in 1924; Mrs. Minnie Brown stepped...
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31_1925_1-11 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1925. The Corporation usually met twice per month. Included is the routine business of the Corporation as well as discussion of work on roads (connecting Greeno Road to Foley and the proposed Silverhill to Robertsdale Road-Highway 104), streets, Wharf improvements (enlarging the pierhead, hiring a night watchman for the summer, establishing fees for cars on the Wharf), dissolution o...
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31_1926_1-11 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1926. The Corporation usually met twice per month. Includes routine business of the Colony Council, including efforts to beautify Fairhope Avenue and other areas of the town by planting dogwood trees from the woods and azalea bushes donated by Clement L. Coleman. The Colony purchased 160 acres from the S. S. Mann Corporation with Mr. Maddocks paying the $2500 fee. St...
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31_1927_1-10 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1927; the Corporation usually met twice per month. Topics include routine matters of business as well as: Representatives of the Fairhope Transportation and Excursion Company, which had help fund an expansion of the pierhead in 1922, came before the Colony Council twice in 1927 requesting that they be paid and suggested the payment come from any funds left from the defunct Pe...
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31_1928_1-8 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1928. The Corporation usually met twice per month. Includes routine business of the FSTC, minutes from the annual meeting, issues about streets, membership (Dr. C. G. Godard's application was denied), parks, rent for 1929, mention of Louis G. Post's death and the copyright rights to the Fairhope I Love You song. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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31_1929_1-13 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1929 including the routine business of the Corporation: financial statements, lease transfers, annual meeting minutes. Among other topics of interest: Several issues about the Colony Cemetery were brought up in 1929 including the proposal to start charging "outside people" (i.e. non-members and non-lessees) for burial plots, notifying Walter H. Mask of Mask Mortuary to cease bu...
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31_1930_1-11 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1930. Includes routine business, financial statements, lease transfers. Other topics include (but are not limited to): The Secretary's Statement at the 1930 Annual Meeting pointed out the reduction of the use of the Wharf and resulting profits since the opening of the Cochrane Bridge (aka The Causeway) in June, 1927 and how the FSTC had been relying heavily on Wharf profits for ...
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31_1931_1-16 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1931 including routine business, financial statements, lease transfers of the Colony and similar actions. In addition: In 1931, the Corporation's attention was focused on transferring the bayfront park area to the Town of Fairhope. The idea had been introduced in 1921 by E. B. Gaston; ten years later the urgency became apparent to most of the Colony leaders and members because o...
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31_1932_1-12 - Meeting Minutes
Meeting MInutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for the year 1932 including routine business, lease transfers, financial statements and other business including: The Fairhope Wharf was deeded to the Town of Fairhope in 1932, following the action of the FSTC in 1931 when the Corporation-owned parklands were deeded to the Town. The so-called "Gateway Amendment" to the FSTC Constitution passed in a May 9th, 1932 special election whic...
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