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1. 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...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
2. 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...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
3. FMH-V1005 - Video, Digital

   Video produced by the Fairhope Museum of History c. 2010 about the 1934/1935 Fire Truck on display. Museum Director Donnie Barrett and Museum Docent Ralph Thayer discuss the history of the truck. The truck is built on a 1934 Ford chassis, with the fire appartatus installed in 1935 by the Peter Pirsch and Sons Company in Kenosha Wisconsin. The City of Fairhope bought the truck from the Town of Hogansville, Georgia in 1955 to use for grass fire...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
4. FSTC-0177 - Photograph, Digital

   Two photographs by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the General Lee bay boat steamer with with a label. The top picture shows the General Lee in June, 1910. The lower photograph shows men watching the still-smoldering General Lee on December 13, 1910 at the Fairhope, Alabama Wharf. The fire burned the Red Wharf House and part of the Fairhope pier. See FMH_0874 for a better quality photo of the General Lee. From the Fairhope Single T...

   Record Type: Photo