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1. 34_17_001_050 - Booklet

   Promotional booklet dated 1912 titled "Alabama's New Era: A Magazine of Progress and Development" published by the Alabama State Board of Immigration. Published "to inform the world outside of Alabama what a magnificent opportunity there is in this State for buyers of land and tillers of land." From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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2. BSS.045 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of E. C. Slosson and daughter Lois Slosson Sundberg in a goat cart that Mr. Slosson built. The location is the family farm in Silverhill, Alabama in 1895. The goat's name is Grover Cleveland, according to information on the back of the photo. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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3. FMH_0663 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph, not dated, of a man on a tractor tilling a field in or near Fairhope, Alabama. Small satsuma orange trees are already planted in rows. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.

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4. FMH_0722 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph (poor quality) of people hoeing a field in or near Fairhope, Alabama. Although the picture is very faint, eight African American women are seen at work in white dresses. A house is seen in the far distance on the left, almost hidden by the old shed in front. A barn is on the right. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection

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5. FMH_0802 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated June 30, 1910, by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of shade tobacco being cultivated by the W. S. Harvey Tobacco Company in Robertsdale, Alabama. A young girl in a hat tends the tobacco. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History

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6. FMH_0857 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of the William N. Dyer potato shed in Foley, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.

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7. FSTC-V0075 - Video, Digital

   VIDEO of 2025 Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Lecture Series Title: Todd Frank: The Gulf Coast Extenson: The History and Local, Regional, and National Influence on Agriculture Date: February 18, 2025, Run Time: 39 min 51 sec Todd Frank is the Associate Director of the Auburn Univeristy Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center (formerly known as the Gulf Coast Substation) in Fairhope, Alabama. His presentation focused on the history of the...

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8. i.7 15-16 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/27/1893 to E. B. Gaston from T. Fulton Gantt, a lawyer from North Platte, Nebraska. Gantt is interested in the idea of a Single Tax colony and has studied it carefully. He proposed such a colony to be focused on farming by irrigation, and he feels using the water to produce electiricity would be a an added benefit of irrigation farming. He feels irrigation farming will bring people together and will provide jobs in a Single Tax ...

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9. ii.3.28-31 - Letter

   Letter written to E. B. Gaston from R. T. Chase of Houston, Texas dated 07/03/1894. Chase is commenting on E. Q. Norton's report of the colony site on Mobile Bay and discusses at length the benefits of climate, access to transportation and markets, and raising cotton and sugar cane.

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10. iii.7.7-8 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on November 27, 1894 from F. D. Nichols, Fort Smith, Ark. He is requesting information about the proposed colony. He saw in "Southern States" about the venture. He is looking for a good country home further South and one worth 5 to 6 thousand dollars. He has a general business education and has always kept a small place, raising a garden, fruits, etc. He keeps cows for the milk and butter. He encloses a letter...

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11. iii.8.22-24 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on February 18, 1895 from Henry C. C. Schakel, Ind. He tells Gaston that he received his letter and suggestion of him coming and starting truck farming. He tells Gaston about his present finacial situation, asked about cleared land available and tells Gaston that they hope to to be there soon.

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12. iii.9.2 - Letter

    Letter written to E. B. Gaston on February 6, 1895 from Unknown. Writer tells Gaston to send $.25 to A. J. Tafel, 1011 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. and he will be sent a booklet called "Bread from Stones". A new and rational system of Land Fertilization and Physical Regeneration.

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13. vi.2.28-29 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/5/1906 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels. Fels is writing from England where he is doing land reform work. He tells Gaston that he hopes Mr. Freeman's scheme to develop a farm, a "Garden of Eden," gets funded by Mr. Nelson because then the agriculatural journals will take notice of Fairhope.. He asks if Bolton Hall and Peter Kiefer have visited Fairhope, and asks Gaston if he won the election for the secretary position in th...

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