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1. 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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2. 30.41.1-42 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated September 1929 and October 1929. The Christian Science Monitor requested information about the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for an article. There are letters between Gaston and journalist Carolyn Cobb about this request and 30.40.39-41 is a statement Gaston sent her. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 34_50_001_116 - Documents

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7. 34_57_002_006 - Brochures

   Brochure titled "Fairhope Gullies" which was jointly prepared by the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and the City of Fairhope Environmental Advisory Board, and funded by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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8. 40_31_001-036 - Newspaper

   Newspaper supplement of the Fairhope Courier (Gulf Coast Media) dated Jyly 2-3, 2008 titled "City of Fairhope 1908-2008 Glorious Fourth Edition." Includes photographs and articles about the history of Fairhope and the beginnings of the municipality in 1908. Some topics: Boy Scout Troop 47, local churches, Fairhope Museum of History dedication, Pottery, movie theater, School of Organic Education, Kudzu vines, Fairhope gullies, Greeno Masonic ...

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9. 40_36_001-008 - Newspaper

   Easy Living section of the Fairhope Courier dated May 25, 1994 published during the centennial year of Fairhope's founding. Articles include Fairhope's first families (featuring the Felix W. Beiser family), the Fairhope Gullies and the Fairhope Yacht Club. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. .

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10. 43_21_001 - Poster

    Poster advertising the 1927 Fairhope Shakespeare Festival production of "The Merchant of Venice." The play was held in Bayou Vert on the bayfront of Mobile Bay. Mrs. Sarah W. Hiestand was the producer, and Fairhope citizens and visitors participated in the play. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Mann Collection, courtesy of Alison Holt Knight.

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11. BSS.437-440 - Photograph, Digital

    Two photograph postcards dated 1908 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of a young woman standing in the Canyon Wall in Fairhope, Alabama. She is identified as Miss Lois Slosson on one card and MIss Agnes Johnson on the other card. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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12. BSS.460-461 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of Organic School students playing in a gully along the beach and bayfront in Fairhope, Alabama. Some students pose with bows and arrows; discarded coats can be seen. Teachers are present in this iconic photograph. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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13. BSS.482 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of man and woman descending steps from the bluff to the bayfront in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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14. BSS.628-630 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard dated 1916 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "The Ravine" and a second, similar photograph titled "Down in the Ravine" shows the walking bridge over Stack's Gully which later became Bayview Street at Cliff Drive (per historian Donnie Barrett). From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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15. BSS.631-633 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of South Bayview Street near Cliff Drive at the Ravine (Stack's Gully.) One image shows the wooden bridge, the other a view from the Ravine in Fairhope, Alabama. The first First Baptist Church building (1915) is seen on the right; St. James Avenue is only a path at the time. A black and white version is included from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fair...

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16. DBJ-0170 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph by Arthur M. Dealy dated 1906 of Lawrence's Gully on Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Dealy Brown Jennings Photo Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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17. DBJ-0171 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph by Arthur M. Dealy of the Gully Bridge over Stack's Gully in Fairhope, Alabama, about 1906. From the Dealy Brown Jennings Photo Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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18. DBJ-0175 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph by Arthur M. Dealy about 1906 of the Fairhope Wharf in Fairhope, Alabama. Stack's Gully is seen to the left of the wharf. From the Dealy Brown Jennings Photo Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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19. DBJ-0203 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph by Arthur M. Dealy about 1905 of the Fairhope bay front in Fairhope, Alabama, The roof of the warehouse at the shore end of the wharf is on the left. Stack's Gully is seen in the foreground with its sandy bottom. The Bayside Cafe is the building in the center of the photograph with a sailboat achored in the bay in the background. From the Dealy Brown Jennings Photo Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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20. DBJ-0276 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph by Arthur M. Dealy, undated, but probably about 1906, titled "Along the Gully" (likely Tatumville Gully) with pine trees seen through the mist of fog. From the Dealy Brown Jennings Photo Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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