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10.8.1-96 - Correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence, documents, printed material, notes and directories of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1958-1979. Includes a bound paper (likely a college paper) "Baldwin County, Alabama in Governmental Perspective" by Harry T. Toulmin, 5/12/1968. There is also a paper from G. T Stewart, Troy State University (AL) titled "Economic and Legal Aspect of the Single Tax Colony; also likely a paper for a college-level class. ...
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30.13.1-8 - Correspondence
Papers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1928. Includes the Treasurer's report for that month, the results of the annual elections for 1928, the approval of $25 to pay for clearing pecan trees in advance of opening Brown Street, a recommendation to curb and gutter certain FSTC owned streets and other general correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.18.1-16 - Correspondence
General correspondene of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1928. Included: Treasurer's Report for January 1928, the resignation letter of J. G. Lorenzen as FSTC Superintendent of Lands and Highways due to health reasons, the nomination of Marion Smith and A. E. Schalkenbach for Supt of Lands and Highways and Trustee in the upcoming elections, and general letters of inquiry from people thinking of moving to Fairhope. From the...
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30.19.1-19 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated January 1929. Included are petitions to place Delia K. Bancroft in the February 1929 annual election ballot as a trustee of the FSTC and a petition for a referendum election concerning the applictaion for leases. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.20.1-24 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1929 and August 1929. Included are: a brochure from Winona, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, a letter to the First Church of Christ, Scientist about building a church in Fairhope (which was built in 1931 at the corner of Church Street and Fels Avenue), and general correspondence of the Corporation. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.21.1-17 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated July 1926. Included: a "Single Tax" postcard, letter to to Wharfinger J. A. Patterson directing him to tell William Shuller to stop using the wharf as a permanent place of business (boat mooring), a draft letter about a leaseholder charging $150 to transfer a leasehold (against FSTC regulations) and other general FSTC business correspondence. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation ...
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30.24.1-12 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1926. Included is a letter to T. E. Mann about the quitclaim deed of the S. S. Mann corporation to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, a letter to Norman Maddocks who is taking up the lease, several letters about taxes, and references by E. B. Gaston about his upcoming trip to the International Single Tax Conference that he and Mrs. Gaston will be attending in Copenhagen, his "Gre...
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30.26.1-20 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1929. Includes Corporation correspondence and a flyer titled "Fairhope on Mobile Bay" published by the Chamber of Commerce. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.27.1-15 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1928 and April 1928. Included are: a petition to amend the constitution to change the date of the annual elections, that the list of non-resident members be updated annually, a request by the the Town of Fairhope to change the name of Powell Street to Dogwood Terrace, and the FSTC Treasurer's Report for March 1928. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.28.1-28 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated March 1926. Of interest are letters and a petition (30.28.8-12, 30.28.14-16) between E. B. Gaston and T. E. Mann regarding the sale of property by the S. S. Mann Corporation to the FSTC. T. E. Mann, son of S. S. Mann gives interesting background about early land transactions by his father who was interested in giving land to the Colony. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corpo...
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30.29.1-18 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation including the results of a March 2, 1929 referendum vote of the members. The question at hand was "Shall the present form of application for lease be discontinued and the form in use previous to it be adopted?" Results were 45 to 1 against the proposition. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.30.1-9 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated May 1928 and June 1928. Included is a letter to S. H. Gibbons, Baldwin County Agent, from E B. Gaston who infers that plans are underway to locate a site for a "demonstration farm" (i.e. Experimental Station) in the Fairhope area, and Gaston says arrangements can be made to secure land on favorable terms. Another letter notifies the Town Council and Mayor of Fairhope that the FSTC E...
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30.31.1-22 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated May 1926. Among the correspondence are letters from T. E. Mann about transferring the lease of Mann land (S. S. Mann Corporation) to Norman Maddocks and wife. T. E. Mann wants Gaston to make certain that the title on the property is appropriately registered at the Baldwin County title office. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.33.1-8 - Correspondence
General Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1927 and December 1927. The Fairhope Single Tax Corporation acknowledged the death of Dudley Stimpson (1912-1927), the son of Alice Stimpson and the late William Stimpson, and brother of Jesse Stimpson. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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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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30.35.1-15 - Correspondence
Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1926. 30.35.4 is a letter to E. B. Gaston from T. E. Mann in Gladbrook Iowa dated November 3, 1926, in which he asks Gaston about the possibilty of acquiring accommodations in Fairhope for a few months (Gaston responds at 30.35.6). Mann is a son of Fairhope co-founder S. S. Mann, and supported the Colony over the years. Mann references his wife, his daughter Floy Mann ...
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30.36.1-26 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 1927 and November 1927. 30.36.14 is a letter dated October 18, 1927 from E. B. Gaston to C. L. Coleman, who is in a Sanitarium in Illinois. Coleman is an early pioneer settler of Fairhope.
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30.37.1-18 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated November 1928. Some letters concern an upcoming amendment vote to the FSTC constitution - correspondents include Fiske Warren, Gaston, and J. H. Webb about this issue. Several letters between Gaston and Professor J. E. Conn of Auburn Univeristy (then Alabama Polytchnic Institute) are interesting as Gaston discusses the application of the single tax theory in Fairhope. ...
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30.38.1-27 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 1926. 30.38.8-14 are minutes from the October 1926 meeting of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation in New York City 30.38.19-22 are recommendations for valuations of Colony property. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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30.39.1-31 - Correspondence
General correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated October 1927. Of special interest are letters between E. B. Gaston, A. E. Schalkenbach and William R. F. Powell designating the latter two men to officially represent the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation at the upcoming Henry George Congress in New York City. R. F. Powell will be attending also, but not as a designated FSTC representative. 30.39.25 is a comparison betwee...
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